The Lucky Child: A Novel

(Mansfield Press) When Marianne Apostolides asked her father about his childhood in wartime Greece, she received a torrent of stories he had kept hidden even from himself — stories of honor, bravery, vengeance, and betrayal. This novel explores the lives of the Apostolides family during World War II and the Civil War that followed in Greece, showing the private costs that they endured during those difficult times. Writer and critic Marianne Apostolides is also the author of the novel Swim and the memoir Inner Hunger: A Young Woman’s Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia .