The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles is one of my favorite reads of 2021. It's a magnificent and heartbreaking love story about Patroclus and Achilles, the last one you may have heard of because of his significant role in the Trojan war. It's a story about a love so pure and unconditional, and about how you can make your own choices even though your path seems already laid out for you. Unfortunately, it's also a story about how fate determines your life course, no matter how much you try to outsmart it.

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”