Athena: Parthenos/Promachus

An American couple, Belle and Wren, have traveled to Greece on an anniversary trip, hoping to resurrect their stumbling marriage. But at a party along the Attic coast they meet several guests who offer unexpected digressions, one being a cruise around the age-layered Aegean Sea. Circumstances lead Belle to take the cruise, while Wren, alone in Athens for a few days, chooses to visit Delphi and its oracle. Told through their alternating views, both experience life-altering encounters which support their growing beliefs that their marriage can make neither happy and fulfillment lies in other directions.

ATHENA Parthenos/Promachus, is Huck Fairman's fourth novel, following HYMN, TALES OF THE CITY, and NOAH'S CHILDREN. When not working on fiction, he has been active in the environmental movement seeking solutions to global warming and writing a guest column on local and national solutions in a local newspaper.