The year is 2032, and Cassie Loomis is making the worst road trip of all time, risking prison to take a family friend across state lines for an abortion. Her twin, Helenus, spent decades sorting out identity only to find out that how a person feels inside doesn't matter to the US government. And their old frenemy, Helen - the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and please don't forget it - has climbed the ladder of power without realizing that her star will fall as soon as her face does.

In The Southern Oracle and End Times Companion, author Kay Summers delivers a darkly funny vision of a near-future America as experienced by some of the most famous characters in Greek mythology. Cassandra, Helenus, Helen of Troy, and Alabama come of age in the 1980s and '90s and come to life in a country in which state lines have become checkpoints. Cassandra, the original woman no one listened to, presents an irreverent, incisive, and empathetic point-of-view of a future we might still avoid...if we could only hear her.