{"product_id":"9780933316492","title":"Memoir of a Death Angel","description":"MEMOIR OF A DEATH ANGEL is the coming-of-age story of Persephone Matepas, a mortal who's destined through ancestral lineage to transform into a winged angel of death. Her whole family is being stalked by an extremist Greek Orthodox sect, whose dark mission is to kill nascent death angels and thus-by their twisted reasoning-\u003cbr\u003esave humanity by banishing mortality altogether.\u003cbr\u003eA modern fantasy which mixes orthodoxy with the supernatural,\u003cbr\u003ethe formal with the irreverent, pure love with obsessive lust,\u003cbr\u003ecompliance with rebellion, and questions whether one's fate is truly inescapable. A wild but guided journey, made possible by an author familiar with both sides of the River Styx.\u003cbr\u003e\"The sense of place is palpable, the narrative situations absorbing,\u003cbr\u003ethe main character, Persephone, compelling and complex.\u003cbr\u003eMagical realism at its best.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Sara Pritchard, author of HELP WANTED: FEMALE\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh my. The audacity of genius. Anagnost has done for\u003cbr\u003eDeath Angels what Bram Stoker did for vampires. Beautifully written,\u003cbr\u003eterrifying, and knock-down glorious. \" -Robert P. Arthur, author of HYMN TO THE CHESAPEAKE\u003cbr\u003e\"A magical evocation of a Greek-American childhood.\u003cbr\u003eHaunting ... at times, terrifying.\"\u003cbr\u003e-David Poyer, author of THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALE\u003cbr\u003e\"Myth, Magic, Medicine, and one extraordinary female hero\u003cbr\u003e... a wild not-to-be-missed descent to the underworld.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Lenore Hart, author of THE RAVEN'S BRIDE","brand":"Xenophon Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033817727216,"sku":"9780933316492","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780933316492_p0.jpg?v=1763867587","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780933316492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}