Title: A thought-provoking meditation on modern Greek life
Product review: Poet and essayist Patricia Storace's meditations on a year spent living and traveling in Greece is simply fascinating. Dinner with Persephone can almost be read as a series of sketches of contemporary Greek life--a form that suits her instincts as a poet well.Other reviewers have referred to her as cynical; as a Greek-American woman, I think that she has, in many ways, captured some of the contradictions of the modern Greek "character," and our continuing struggles to define ourselves to our satisfaction. Also to her great credit, Storace explores the Byzantine heritage of Greece. (How many writers have ignored Orthodoxy and the Byzantine legacy in favor of its classical history?)A must-read.
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