Interview with Tracy Wolff, Author of The Aftermyth
Welcome to Smack Dab, Tracy! Please tell us about The Aftermyth . Thank you so much for having me! I love your site and am so thrilled to be here. The Aftermyth is the story of Penelope Weaver, a thirteen-year-old girl who is starting the first of six years at Anaximander’s Academy, a boarding school in the Massachusetts Berkshires, where each of the halls has a Greek god patron. Penelope has spent her life believing she’s going to be an Athena girl—studious, a good planner, conscientious—only to get sorted into the school’s “party” hall instead. Once there, she convinces her very fun, very sparkly roommate, Fifi, and several other hallmates, to engage in the school wide scavenger hunt based on the Pandora’s box myth so that they can win and she can impress Athena enough to get transferred to her hall, after all. Needless to say, things don’t quite work out the way Penelope expects … One of the fun thinks about the book—and Anaximander’s—is that the whole school functions li...
