Sing To me

 By: Jesse Browner    

Location: FIC BRO

Genre: Mythlogy 

IF YOU WATCHED  Odyssey THEN THIS BOK IS FOR YOU!

"This beautiful and poignant novel should become a classic." Nancy

"Deeply Bronze Age. I like."

After the fall of Troy, an eleven-year-old boy sets off for the razed city once his father and sister fail to return home; an extraordinary, intimate retelling of a familiar legend, for lovers of Circe.

His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest – assisted by a brooding yet brilliant donkey – to find his lost sister in the ruins of Troy. Some war stories transcend time and circumstance, and so it is with the resourceful and heartbroken Hani, who must employ every bit of intelligence, every scrap of ingenuity, and ultimately every ounce of his spirit and humor to withstand the forces of civilization’s collapse.

Hani is no ordinary boy, however, and a character unlike any you’ve ever met. His interior world is one of startling depth and complexity. His insights into life, lives, and history are breathtakingly fresh. And his hope for survival--not a given, and in fact, less than likely--will propel you to the startling conclusion of this brief, elegiac, and singular work.

"Sing to Me is a small gem of a book. The setting (after the fall of Troy) is what hooked me, although this story could really be set after any violent conflict. The plot is very simple; thoughful, resourceful, abandoned Hani is from a farming village a few days from Troy and heads there to try to find his family. His interior narration is gentle and compassionate, in a world that is decidedly not so. The prose is lovely, a mixture of rich description and Hani's reflections on what he's learning about the world as he goes. I liked this very much."- Maree