King of Ithaka Lysa TerKeurst a Hollywood child star whose

a Hollywood child star whose life resembles the card game called Mao--a game in which only the dealer knows the rules

Bordering a canal leading to Biscayne Bay

Jordan waits and watches as his mother and grandmother--an extraordinary woman who was once a renowned photographer and is ravaged by cancer--play the ultimate hand of Mao

and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years

In time she becomes his lover then she inexplicably disappears

King of Ithaka Lysa TerKeurst a Hollywood child star whoseTelemachos has a comfortable life on his small island of Ithaka, where his mother, Penelopeia, keeps the peace even though the land has been without its king, his father Odysseus, since the Trojan War began many years ago. But now the people are demanding a new king, unless Telemachos can find Odysseus and bring him home. With only a mysterious prophecy to guide him, Telemachos sets off over sea and desert in search of the father he has never known.