{"id":3276,"date":"2023-11-09T23:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T23:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:47:54","slug":"last-days-in-plaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"Last Days in Plaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazaridis\u2019s previous work, <em>Terra Nova<\/em> (Pegasus, 2022), alternated between men trekking to the South Pole and the fight by one of their wives back home to win attention for suffragists. On the surface, this title is very different, taking place in \u201cviolently hot\u201d Athens, Greece, where a young Astoria, New York woman is shyly finding her feet in her parents\u2019 homeland. But she\u2019s an explorer in her own way, and an intrepid one, \u201c[uncoiling] the spring of opportunity\u201d that her parents created for her and traipsing toward the traditional center of Greek life: the church. Anna\u2019s parea\u2014her friend group\u2014won\u2019t understand her need to find God, she tells herself; she also (correctly) surmises that they\u2019ll be puzzled by her new choice of friend: an 82-year-old woman whom she meets when Father Emmanouil gives her fresh figs to bring to the woman\u2019s home. As Anna gears up to\u2026well, commit a crime, but one that has a kind motive, readers are immersed in her longing to find out who she really is, where she belongs, and whether she will ever find her way home. <strong>What Lazaridis calls her \u201cstrange little novel\u201d is a wonderful mix of coming of age, immigrant stories, and the pain that lurks behind crumbling facades.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazaridis\u2019s previous work, Terra Nova (Pegasus, 2022), alternated between men trekking to the South Pole and the fight by one of their wives back home to win attention for suffragists.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-psychological"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Plaka-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Plaka-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}