Sentences with phrase «seemingly mythological figure»

Warner cunningly parses the undercurrents of hate and fear in today's multicultural metropolises by interleaving the spellbinding, time - warping tale of a seemingly mythological figure, Leto, a self - sacrificing mother and unwanted refugee, into a wickedly incisive contemporary plot involving a young man who claims to be in contact with the goddess of the displaced and disenfranchised whose name is, of course, Leto.