Books are a wonderful way for coworkers and friends to share experiences, even when we’re miles, states, and countries apart. Hearing about what someone is reading is like taking a 5-minute vacation. Each week, one Piper team member will answer the question, “What are you reading?” and take you on a well-deserved, 5-minute vacation.

This week Andrea is reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

“…a gorgeous heart-wrenching saga…”

ANDREA SAYS…

This modern retelling of the Trojan War shows us exactly why Achilles hurled himself into the Trojan War like such a beast in response to the death of Patroclus. The history of the boys’ growing up together, training on a mountaintop with Chiron the centaur, and the slow unfolding of their romantic love are the real story here, punctuated by the epic battle we are familiar with. This is a gorgeous heart-wrenching saga that hit me like a ton of bricks. I hadn’t been so moved by a love story since André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name.

AMAZON DESCRIPTION

“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.

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