Books by Anaïs Mitchell
“Hadestown the musical is a Great Depression-inspired musical about Orpheus and Eurydice. They meet in a bar. Eurydice is this homeless girl who drifts from one place to the other. Orpheus is hanging out with Hermes. They meet, they fall in love, and then Hades shows up. And Hades in this iteration is the proprietor-manager, the CEO of Hadestown, a huge industrial complex which is offering lifelong employment to the down and outs and disenfranchised, and they’re earning their keep by building a wall. The whole Persephone-Hades relationship plays out in tandem with Orpheus and Eurydice, so you see how everything is happening simultaneously, and the cyclical nature of it all.” Read more...
The Best Hades and Persephone Retellings
Melinda Salisbury, Children's Author
Interviews where books by Anaïs Mitchell were recommended
The Best Hades and Persephone Retellings, recommended by Melinda Salisbury
The Greek myth of Persephone and Hades has inspired numerous retellings. Bestselling author Melinda Salisbury introduces five books that feature these two beloved characters in all their complexity: stories that explore the peculiar predicament of Persephone, and the strange but powerful allure of the King of the Dead.
