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My own tastes veer toward realistic novels, but Circe did engage me, particularly the last hundred pages or so when Odysseus� son Telegonus enters the picture, and Madeline Miller cmposes a fascinating stand-in for the lost classical Greek Telegony. The theme of Miller’s novel, at least so it seems to me, is the huge chasm between immortals (gods and titans) and mortals, with Circe’s sympathies and desires shifting gradually from the former, to which she belongs, to the latter, where she eventually wishes to be. This makes for an emotionally complex final section of the novel in which Circe and her son Telegonus struggle with their own destinies and, ultimately, reconciliation. Miller writes exceedingly well and re-creates a mythological world that is filled with great energy and deep, sometimes almost terrifying, emotion.