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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Son of Nobody by Yann Martel. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey weren’t the only voices echoing from the Trojan War. In this bold reimagining, Martel introduces The Psoad, a free verse epic chronicling the journey of Psoas of Midea, a humble goatherd’s son who leaves behind his family to fight at Troy. His story ends in tragedy, and the poem that once told his tale vanishes into history.
Centuries later, Harlow Donne, a Canadian scholar at Oxford, uncovers fragments of the lost epic. As he pieces them together and annotates the verses, he’s drawn into reflections on his own life, his wife, his daughter, and the weight of ambition and duty across time. Son of Nobody shifts the lens from kings and warriors to the forgotten and ordinary, reminding us that history is never truly past. It’s a haunting, lyrical meditation on legacy and loss, perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilson’s The Iliad.

Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist and in his soul. After trying every diet under the sun, he remains stuck in his dead-end job, in love, and in his body.
Desperate for help, he enrolls in a clinical trial for a new weight loss product called Obexity. The treatment is as horrifying as the results are miraculous, and as Emmett sheds pounds at superhuman speed, every part of his life improves overnight.
Unfortunately, Obexity comes with some killer side effects, including lost stretches of time and overwhelming cravings. Worse, people who were cruel to him have started disappearing, and when the police warn of a cannibalistic killer on the loose, he fears that Obexity is turning him into a monster. But how can he give it up now that people are finally starting to treat him like he’s human?