The Suitors A Novel

"In this re-imaging of The Odyssey, Ben Ehrenreich casts the ever-pining Penny as a modern-day Penelope, aswirl in a sea of hopeful ne'er-do-wells. While her lover Payne, much like Odysseus, gallivants around waging war and otherwise taking his time on the voyage home, the suitors fail to steal Penny's mind away from her memories. But when a mysterious man with suspicious origins arrives upon the scene, the precarious pecking order unravels in the glow of Penny's newly ignited ardor."--BOOK JACKET.

Ben Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. His last book, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, based on his reporting from the West Bank, was one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016. He is also the author of two novels, Ether and The Suitors.