Wake, Siren: Ovid ResungMy rating: 4 of 5 stars

An exceptional revisiting of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, at times frayed at the edges, yet always making you think and rethink from another point of view. It’s a hard read, and by that I mean emotionally, but again, it’s worth the price of entry. Some of the stories I found particularly interesting to me were: Daphne, Tiresias, Syrinx, Io, Scylla, Medusa, Arethusa, Procne and Philomena, Baucis (a happy one), and Eurydice. I really thought the story of Thetis would be great for retelling, but I didn’t like this one. It read more like an exercise in writing rather than thinking. Overall, an excellent entry into this blossoming field of revisiting the classics from different points of view.