Antiquity: A Novel

On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her thirties upends the relationship between a mother & her teenage daughter. Lust & admiration for Helena, a chic older artist, brings Antiquity’s unnamed narrator to Ermoupoli, where Helena’s daughter, Olga, seems at first like an obstacle & a nuisance. But the unpredictable forces of ego & desire take over, leading our narrator down a more dangerous path, & causing the roles of lover and beloved, child & adult, stranger & intimate to become distorted. As the months go by, the fragile web connecting the three women nears rupture, & the ominous consequences of their entanglement loom just beyond a summer that must end.

With echoes of Death in Venice, Call Me by Your Name, & The Lover, but wholly original & contemporary, Antiquity probes the depths of memory, beauty, morality, & the narratives that arrange our experience of the world.