ERASING ODYSSEUS
ERASING ODYSSEUS
Book/Manuscript
· Drama · 400 pages
Lucy, the kickass-non-binary-biracial-glassblowing daughter-the-author-never-had, mourns her queer neurodivergent mom, Nora, killed by COVID. By “orphing”--time-travel named for Orpheus’ dead head singing as it floats to Lesbos’ shore--Lucy sees Nora endure a gang rape. Lucy learns to orph from Penelope (c.1200 BCE) who, during COVID lockdown, has ...
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Penelope Boyer
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San Antonio, Texas
Finished manuscripts include a prose adaptation of Shakepeare's AS YOU LIKE IT entitled ALIENA taking place in Mexican cartel country and Las Vegas, NV, and a piece of feminist neo-mythic auto-fiction titled ERASING ODYSSEUS--an extension of MY GREAT HIGH-ROOFED HOUSE (New York & Dresden: Atropos Press, 2012). I live in San Antonio where I've helped...
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Additional Project Info
Fantastical elements of ERASING ODYSSEUS would be great for film or Netflix-like mini-series along the lines of "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,” "The Hours," "Orlando" or "Outlander." Target audiences: lipstick literati/cool queer kids of color/the bipolar bound/revisionist readers of classics re-worked from a feminist perspective/COVID-19 chroniclers/time travelers/women warrior/museum freaks/glassblowers/experimental literature geeks/speculative fiction fans/Joycean scholars/trauma survivors/alternative memoirists/daughters and mothers/armchair archeologists/matriarchy-to-patriarchy tracers/etc.