Ransacking Troy

By Erin Shields

THE WOMEN STANDING BESIDE YOU POSSESS A BRAVERY THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN

Everyone knows the story of the Trojan War: Trojan boy elopes with married Greek girl; angry husband tracks the lovers to the boy’s hometown; 10 years of siege warfare later, the angry husband and his posse reduce Troy to rubble.

But did it have to end that way? In Ransacking Troy, Erin Shields imagines a less testosteronefuelled conclusion, in which the women of Greece—tired of waiting for their husbands to return from war—stage an intervention of historical proportions.