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Also by Lauren J. A. Bear:

Aphrodite In Pieces, May 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Mother of Rome, January 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Medusa's Sisters, August 2024
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APHRODITE IN PIECES
By: Lauren J. A. Bear

Narrator: Zura Johnson

Penguin
May 2026
On Sale: April 21, 2026
384 pages
ISBN: 0593638972
EAN: 9780593638972
Kindle: B0FJDJD9BP
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
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Fantasy | Women's Fiction

Experience the myth and magic of antiquity's most alluring—and provocative—goddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author of Mother of Rome and Medusa's Sisters.

Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite surprises an itinerant sculptor with a shocking request: Hear my story, see me for who I truly am, and carve it into stone. Never before has the goddess posed for her likeness, and as the artist works, she shares pieces of herself.

Her greatest triumphs and most grievous mistakes. The truth behind the tales of her beneficence and vengeance. And the one epic romance that slips through her perfect fingers, time and time again.

Part memoir, part fantasy, and all heart, Aphrodite in Pieces begs the eternal, essential questions: what do love and beauty truly mean? And can they last?