A novel unfolds in the footnotes of a Greek epic-poem in best-selling author Yann Martel’s retelling of the Trojan War, Son of Nobody. A lonely Classics scholar Harlow Donne discovers Psoas, a Greek “son of nobody” in the pages of his research. A long-lost epic and a modern domestic drama accidentally converge, as Donne begins to find reflections of his own tumultuous life in the life of the Greek commoner. In conversation with writer Kristen Millares Young, Martel discusses the narrative ingenuity of his playful and profound new novel.