Becca Menon: 7 books

In French there’s an idiom for uttering the utterly unbearable: “Pousser des cris de Mélusine,” to cry out as does Melusine. These are the heartrending howls of tearing, of separation, of grief for the self, for the beloved. According to legend, Melusine still cries whenever a member of the...

The divine work of supreme love. Wise King Solomon has created a commune for unmarriageable Jewish women. Those Daughters of Jerusalem perform this dramatic pastiche of his poetry and music for him and his sublime beloved, The Queen of Sheba. Like all true lovers, they have their private language...

Part love story, part fairy tale, part novel of ideas, IN YOUR MYTHS is a romp through Greek mythology that takes some of the shine off “Shining” Apollo. Find out the real reason Apollo chased Daphne, famous for preferring tree-hood to him. But her heart – and other delectable parts – already...

“This is how the woman becomes the goddess,” the gossip writer in this work will explain near the end of the book, a journey that also draws a Goddess into her womanhood. Here is a Hollywood Faust and a female one at that. She is under the sway of her companion, Lilith, whose own own romance,...

Captain Impongible speaks when he talks! Is it possible? He both walks and strolls! But whether the Captain, who comes with a rabbit, turns out to be child or some odd kind of grown up, he takes on the world, having very grand goals, then goes “Whee, I’m me!” with his tri-cycling habit.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27) A couple of angels have been scouting Creation. They report to the heavenly hosts how the Lord created male and female. Adam’s most notable attributes are greed and laziness....

“It is quite clear that one has no use for a person who has no I in a well-ordered police state. But I also have no more use for the police state.” The story of a found manuscript and the intense tale of its enigmatic, amnesiac author: a yarn complete with murder mystery and wily challenges to reader regarding the Nietzschean nature, psychology and politics of identity.