Maybe it’s like The Wizard of Oz, my father said jauntily. “There’s no place like home…” There was a small silence, and then Brendan turned to me. Would you say that that movie is actually an Odyssey-based story? It was a book first, my father interrupted. L. Frank Baum! I thought for a moment. Sure, I said. Totally. The protagonist is torn from home and family and experiences fabulous adventures in exotic locales where she meets all kinds of monstrous and fantastical beings. But all the time she’s yearning to go home. It’s amazing, actually, how similar the structure is.
