The Mill Valley Library presents an evening with bestselling author Caro de Robertis to discuss their newest novel, The Palace of Eros in conversation with novelist and poet Achy Obejas. Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, The Palace of Eros is a bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros and an exploration of the power of queer joy and freedom.

Told in bold and sparkling prose from “a brilliant and luminous writer” (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author), The Palace of Eros transports us to a magical world imbued by divine forces as well as everyday realities, where palaces glitter with magic even as ordinary people fight for freedom in a society that fears the unknown.

Caro De Robertis is the award-winning and bestselling author of several books, including The Palace of Eros, The President and the Frog, Cantoras, and more. Their work has been translated into eighteen languages and has garnered numerous honors including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Stonewall Book Awards, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, which they were the first openly nonbinary person to receive. De Robertis is also an award-winning literary translator and a professor at San Francisco State University. 

Achy Obejas is the author of Boomerang/Bumerán, an inspiring bilingual collection of poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. She also authored The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national best-seller. 

Our bookseller for this program is Sausalito Books by the Bay. 

Author photo credit: Lori Eanes