A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters plenty
of Texas swagger and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle rivalries flare and
secrets explode all with a clever wink toward classical mythology.For fans of Madeline
Miller's Circe: The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular captivating debut (Oprah
Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to
East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother
June hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her
tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it perhaps time for a change? Within days of
March's arrival someone is dead marriages are upended and even the strongest of alliances
are shattered. In the end the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all
down. An expansive tour de force Olympus Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical
mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga rich in drama and psychological complexity.
After all at some point don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call
love?
