'What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell
'In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at their looms, rather than leaving home like Odysseus. Meet eighty-five-year-old Barbara and her sixty-two-year-old writer daughter Susan, who asked her mother—on a whim—if she wanted to accompany her to live on the Greek island of Kythera.
'What follows is a moving unravelling of the mother–daughter relationship told in poetic, irresistible prose.
'Aphrodite's Breath is a strikingly original, funny and forensic examination of love and finding home, amid the stories of the people, olives and wonders of the birthplace of Aphrodite.' (Publication summary)
'A mother-daughter trip to the birthplace of Aphrodite. What could possibly go wrong?'
'From love stories to untold histories, poetry to art: explore the vibrant tapestry of Greek Australian voices many of them featured in the recent Greek Community of Melbourne’s Book Fair'
''Who hasn’t longed to run away?’ asks Susan Johnson at the beginning of this memoir-cum-travel book about her time on the Greek island of Kythera. It is a question that invites a show of hands. Fewer people, however, might be inclined to bring their mothers with them.'(Introduction)
'Have you ever dreamed of fleeing your current life and spending weeks or months or even a year living on an island in the Mediterranean? This is what Susan Johnson longed for and did, taking her mother with her to the Greek island of Kythera. Reading Johnson’s new memoir Aphrodite’s Breath while taking myself off for a month of writing near Naples was my second experience of living in a synchronicity of sorts with Johnson.' (Introduction)
'Have you ever dreamed of fleeing your current life and spending weeks or months or even a year living on an island in the Mediterranean? This is what Susan Johnson longed for and did, taking her mother with her to the Greek island of Kythera. Reading Johnson’s new memoir Aphrodite’s Breath while taking myself off for a month of writing near Naples was my second experience of living in a synchronicity of sorts with Johnson.' (Introduction)
''Who hasn’t longed to run away?’ asks Susan Johnson at the beginning of this memoir-cum-travel book about her time on the Greek island of Kythera. It is a question that invites a show of hands. Fewer people, however, might be inclined to bring their mothers with them.'(Introduction)
'A mother-daughter trip to the birthplace of Aphrodite. What could possibly go wrong?'
'From love stories to untold histories, poetry to art: explore the vibrant tapestry of Greek Australian voices many of them featured in the recent Greek Community of Melbourne’s Book Fair'
