Thanks to Ecco Books for the free copy of this book.

Katherine is a young mathematician who has struggled her whole life to be taken seriously as a woman of color in her field. While attempting to solve a famous theorem, she travels not only across Europe but through her own mysterious family history, discovering secrets buried in wars and links across generations of women.

THE TENTH MUSE is a story about the many kinds of love - love for family, for work, for friends, for romantic partners, for yourself. And about how women are forced to choose between them, or sometimes given no choices at all. It's about a woman trying to carve out her own place in a world that isn't sure it wants her, that keeps shifting around her.

Please don't let the idea that this book is math-based scare you away from it. You don't need to know anything about any kind of math, and I want all of you to read this book. It is so beautiful and so heartbreaking. I felt literal, physical pain when THE THING happened with Peter.

I feel like I can't adequately explain it - it's just one of those books I want to clutch to my chest while also pushing it into everyone's hands.