Book description
Aristotle has never been able to resist a keen mind in another,
even in his own daughter, Pythias - a young girl who should be content
with the kitchen, the loom and a future of childbearing. But she is
really smart, able to best his own students in debate; is she a freak
or a harbinger of what women can really achieve? Whichever is the
case, hers is a privileged position, a woman who moves in a man's
world, protected by the reputation of her philosopher father. Yet her
entire life is set to change when Aristotle falls from grace... Driven
from Athens, the old philosopher soon dies. Without the loving
guidance of her father, the orphaned sixteen-year-old Pythias quickly
discovers that the world is a place not of logic after all, but one of
superstition, and that a girl can be preyed upon by gods and goddesses
as much as by grown men and women. To safely journey to a place in
which she can reach her true potential, Aristotle's daughter will need
every ounce of wit she possesses; and she must also learn, quickly, to
nurture her capacity to love.
Annabel Lyon is the author of two short story collections,
Oxygen, and The Best Thing for You. She lives in British Columbia with
her husband and two children. In 2009, she won the Rogers Writers'
Trust Fiction Prize for her novel, The Golden Mean.
