I heard about this complex long back but never gave it much thought. It was a bit absurd but that was what makes it complex. But like a lot of other theories, this one is also comes from Greek mythology where an abandoned boy eventually killed his king father and married her mother (without knowing).
This is a story and like all the mythological ones, this comes with cues, symbols and imagination. There is no real evidence that such a behaviour exists but a form of over possessiveness by kids towards parents which leads to more complications in the adult age is qualified as Oedipus complex. It rarely has any marriage or sexual consequences involved but a twisted emotions between the parents and children.
And, that is the part which gives the writers a lot of room to imagine and retell the old myths. This one is exactly the same. It tells the story of past and present together, one chapter after the other, which is, at times, a bit confusing to connect while reading. But the story eventually comes out well.
Most of the storyline is same which you can find in any traditional Greek mythology book, and it is the work of the writer to put flesh and meet on the bones (the basic structure of the story).
It is not the best fiction on Greek mythology but if you don't know much about the myth, it might interest you. And, it does leave you with puzzling about what was true because there was none.
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