The magic of this novel is that such an ancient, privileged life is told by the child as she’s living it. The year is 34 BC, and Cleopatra Selene’s father, Mark Antony, has just dubbed his young daughter the queen of Cyrenaica and Crete. Now her only daughter, Cleopatra Selene, is getting the historical fiction treatment in a beautiful new novel for young adults, “Cleopatra’s Moon.” The book begins in the 17th year of her mother Cleopatra’s reign, when Cleopatra Selene and her twin brother, Alexandros, were just 7. The reason is simple: The last queen of Egypt was an exotic blend of power and beauty whose brief life came to a tragic end when she committed suicide with the help of an asp. Levine Books: 368 pp., $18.99, ages 13 and upĮyes ringed with kohl, her lithe body draped in a tunic, Cleopatra VII has been memorialized ad nauseam in numerous art forms, from paintings and opera to film and a seemingly endless string of books.
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