Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith

Category: Fantasy, LGBT
Language: English
Keywords: Feminism Mythology Queer Retellings

Written by Ali Smith
Read by Marli Siu
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 04-01-21

Long-listed, International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, 2011

Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand-new set of circumstances?

Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can’t be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.

The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.