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Spring and summer belong to my mother, while autumn and winter belong to my husband. What is left for me? Persephone spends six months of the year underground with her husband, the king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, the goddess of the harvest. This arrangement has been in place for nine thousand years since the deal was struck. However, when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rain lashes the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, and people are attempting to build a road through the woods, and her mother seems unable to stop them. The natural world is rapidly changing, and even the gods have lost control. As Demeter struggles to regain her powers and fend off her daughter's husband, who wants to permanently drag his queen back underground, Persephone finally experiences a taste of freedom by joining a group of protestors. Accustomed to viewing the world from below, she realizes for the first time from the treetops with activist Snow that there are choices she can make for herself. However, what will these choices mean for her mother, her husband, and the new shoots of life inside her? No Season but the Summer takes a classic myth and flips it on its head, exploring what happens when our oldest stories fail us and all the rules have changed. Above all, it is a book about choice.

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