Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece

This is one of the most insightful books that I have read about modern Greece and its conflicted relationship to the past. Storace is sensitive to the complicated gender roles of Greece and the continuing evolution of Orthodoxy as Greece attempts to assert itself in the West. Though Storace lived in Athens in the '90s, her book continues to be relevant and offers some perspective on the current political and economic turmoil in Greece. If you are planning on visiting Greece or are simply looking for a beautifully written travelogue of an intriguing place (Storace is a poet and it shows in her prose), then I would definitely recommend this book. ( )

This was recommended reading for an upcoming trip to Greece. It was an interesting glimpse into Greek culture; some chapters, like the beginning and the one about the children's book author, were more compelling than others. ( )