{"product_id":"a-hungry-fire-paperback","title":"A Hungry Fire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eÉlyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Queen Dido, founder of the great city of Carthage, was abandoned by her lover, the Trojan prince Aeneas, she asserted her power by choosing the method by which she would die. Stabbing herself atop a funeral pyre with a gifted sword, she sealed a curse on his descendants for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer twenty-first-century namesake, however, doesn't want her life to end in flames. She needs answers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince encountering Vergil's Aeneid in the paintings of a childhood book, modern-day Dido has strived to be as fearsome as her ancient counterpart. A driven and artistic civil engineer who dreams of designing her own Carthage, she navigates the thirteen-year pursuit of a diagnosis for her chronic pelvic pains, processing her struggles through the lens of the Roman epic. Princes and gods become doctors and protectors who follow her through countless tests, educated guesses, medications, and invasive procedures. Her Aeneas is not a runaway lover but an eminent gynecologist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the ages, muses have sung of the rage of Achilles and the cunning of Odysseus. Now, with acerbic humour, they bear witness for a modern audience to the wrath of Dido as she waves a wonky speculum aloft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 318\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46641834000428,"sku":"9781770868311","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/mI7Fwllqch9781770868311.webp?v=1794415852","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/a-hungry-fire-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}