Mother of Rome Sports Anthony Lukas Book Prize •

Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize

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Mother of Rome Sports Anthony Lukas Book Prize •A powerful and fierce reimagining of the earliest Roman legend: the twins, Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of historys greatest empire, and the woman whose sacrifice made it all possible. The names Romulus and Remus may be immortalized in map and stone and chronicle, but their mother exists only as a preface to her sons journey, the princess turned oath breaking priestess, condemned to death alongside her children. But she did not die; she