Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter: A Memoir
Author: Barbara Robinette Moss
A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man….Read More
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