Description New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers--a houseWife and a battle-hardened veteran--fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife.
Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the Mac Dowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of this book wa.
With Kat Howard she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures.
Her books include the novels Magonia, Aerie, Queen of Kings, and the memoir The Year of Yes.
About the Author Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author & editor.
When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana\'s and Willa\'s worlds collide.
Dana didn\'t want Gren, didn\'t plan Gren, and doesn\'t know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was.
Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance.
She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow.
For Willa, the Wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace.
But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall\'s periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights.
Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows.
Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining.
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise.
Description New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers--a houseWife and a battle-hardened veteran--fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife
