9 Little Odysseys That Don’t Go Very Far, and That’s the Whole Point

9 Little Odysseys That Don’t Go Very Far, and That’s the Whole Point

I love a rousing epic, but I’m equally drawn to smaller, more interior odysseys—stories set in kitchens, in unassuming towns, or in the mind itself. Unlike larger-than-life quest narratives with a traditional (and traditionally male) protagonist, these little odysseys take place in spaces often coded as female and just as often dismissed as unimportant. But their smallness is precisely the point, and although they promise neither resolution nor …