Persephone's Stories
Suzanne Uttaro SamuelsEssays on women, myth, Sicily, motherhood, and the histories that refuse to stay buried.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 98 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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A Living Monastery—for Now
Sister Cecilia and me, talking in the monastery dining room.
Midway through my stay in western Sicily, I journeyed eastward, along the Mediterranean Sea. I had a reservation to stay at a hostel in Agrigento, located at the Monastery of San...
Why I Keep Rewriting Chapter One
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On the blank page, the cursor blinks.
Chapter One. Page One.
Again.
I’ve been here before. So...
The Friar in the Crypt
Photo of Frati Minori Cappuccini in Partanna, Sicily. For two weeks, I shopped within sight of this church without knowing that Vito had been buried beneath it.
This morning, I sat down to begin work on the latest revision of my book, The...
Let Them Not Become Orphans
It was the last leg of our four-thousand-mile journey home from Sicily. A one-hour flight from Boston to Saranac Lake, over the Adirondack Mountains.
I pulled my headphones from my backpack and settled in beside my husband. The ten-seater...
Start Here: Welcome to Persephone’s Stories
Welcome. I’m Suzanne Uttaro Samuels, a historical novelist and essayist living in the Adirondack Mountains.
I began Persephone’s Stories because I’m drawn to the women who hover at the edges of history: women whose names were altered, whos...
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Historical novelist Suzanne Uttaro Samuels follows women who disappear from the record—from nineteenth-century Sicily to the myths that still shape mothers and daughters.
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