Cassandra Complex

Following runaway sensation Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos, award-winning editors Llewellyn and Buckley return with Cassandra Complex, an anthology of world myths reimagined through a queer and feminist slant, featuring stories by Sophie Mackintosh, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, K-Ming Chang, Porochista Khakpour, and many others.

 The Yoruba orisha of storms and transformation risks the wrath of her fellow divinities to stop the wedding of a child bride. A long-suffering mother brings her murdered daughter back to life by shaping her from clay. An OB/GYN nurse in São Paulo prepares for new restrictions on abortions, but as protests erupt across the country, she’s haunted by a ghostly woman in white. In her father’s grand estate, a half-demon girl is torn between love for her sister and the mother who seeps like slow poison in her veins. And on an island paradise, a flock of waitresses revel in their beauty and freedom—until the arrival of a wanderer who’s much more than he seems.

In sixteen fierce and vivid tales, Cassandra Complex delivers twisted myths from Palestine to Tonga, Iran to Colombia, Wales to Zimbabwe, and more—wild stories grown lush in the soil of love, rage, and revenge.