Galatea (2013) by Madeline Miller
Good Reads meta-data is 49 pages rated 3.94 by 24,583 litizens.
Genre: Fiction. Species: Short Story.
Galatea finds life puzzling and ends it all.
After reading the Song of Achilles and Circe, I am ready for anything that comes from MM’s keyboard, even this slight story between hard covers. Well, almost ready because I found this one didactic, and did not get the point until I read the afterword, and then I felt I had been preached at under the false pretence of a story fabricated from myth. The scatological language early on should have tipped me off. The MM of the earlier novels had no need for such vulgarity to get a reader’s attention.