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In this semi-experimental second novel, Kyra Wilder transposes the Greek myth of the Hesperides to Marin County in California at the turn of the Millennium. Ari, Eleni and Hesper, three young adults struggling with an eating disorder, are reunited after they met one summer at the unconventional, rural treatment facility Golden Apples Farm. A trial is underway, and the girls attempt to elucidate what it is exactly that happened with Lee, the charismatic man and passionate cook who runs Golden Apples. With childlike candour and a lightness of tone that belies the seriousness of her subject Wilder elaborates a kaleidoscopic picture of trauma, in the protagonists' own words.