This book is the story of Lavinia, the last wife of Aeneas in The Aeneid. Because it’s Le Guin, it’s beautifully written, and thought provoking.
When Lavinia is young, she goes with her father to the holy place of her family, and the dreams she has there are of Virgil, who will write her story in the future. He’s dying, so his fever dream to a girl he never really fleshed out in his story tells her much of her future.
That’s what this book is about – history, and stories, and how we know characters from the past through a certain lens. But who were these people really? That’s what I love about Le Guin’s work. She always makes me think.