Delphi

Author:	Pollard, Clare
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9781982197896
Publisher:	Avid Reader Press
Language:	English
Page Count:	193
Publication Date:	8/2/2022
Size:	8.66" l x 5.64" w x 0.86"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Literary
Fiction	Family Life

A Literati Book Club pick from Joseph Campbell

Covid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters big and small that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator—a classics professor immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies—navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the future. Shifting her focus from chiromancy (prophecy by palm reading) to zoomancy (prophecy by animal behavior) to oenomancy (prophecy by wine), she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her very own home, and when she finally does, the threat has already breached the gates.

Brainy and ominous, imaginative and funny, Delphi is a snapshot and a time capsule—it vividly captures our current moment and places our reality in the context of myth. Clare Pollard has delivered one of our first great pandemic novels, a mesmerizing and richly layered story about how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd.