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1. The title of my novel about a girl willing to sacrifice her name and her identity

2. The middle name of Cleo Hart, a scholarship student at a prestigious New England university in the 1950’s

3. A feminized form of “Thessaloniki,” a city in Greece possibly named after Alexander the Great’s half-sister

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A college student masquerades as her male classmate to join an archaeological dig in 1954 Crete. While excavating Minoan ruins, she unwittingly enters a labyrinth of post-war sociopolitical conflict.

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