Consumed by a myth about Zeus, a magic sword, and soul mates, Greek-American professor Thair Mylopoulos-Wright has spent much of her life searching for her Other Half. At thirty-one, she spends a summer in Greece, there, alone on a tranquil island, she begins writing stories about her grandmothers experiences in 1940s Egypt, her mothers youth in 1960s Greece, and finally, her own life in contemporary Americatrying to make sense of her future by exploring the past.Spanning Thairs life from thirt ...