Lavinia

I like this book so much I read it twice. It is a retelling of the Aeneid from the point of view of Lavinia, the king's daughter whom Aeneas marries when he arrives in Italy. However, unlike Marion Zimmer Bradley's disappointing retellings of famous stories, this is a rich book in its own right. It thinks about the relationship of the storyteller to his characters and how famous stories shape the people who know and live with them. It also thinks about the society that Aeneas came to, how it was similar to the Greek society he had left, and how it was different in important ways. I highly recommend.