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Stone blind book review6/10/2023 She is cared for by her sisters, Sthenno and Euryale. We first meet Medusa as a baby abandoned on the Gorgon Shore of Libya: a rocky, unpeopled place. This childhood memory appears to have inspired Haynes’s fourth novel, Stone Blind, which reframes the familiar myth of Perseus and Medusa as the story of an innocent girl corrupted and destroyed by an unforgiving world. “She wasn’t a character,” she wrote, “she was just a monster… It would be years before I came across any other version of Medusa’s story, anything that told me how she became a monster, or why.” Although that film inspired Haynes to study Classics, she never thought to question the presentation of Medusa. N atalie Haynes began Pandora’s Jar(2020), her excellent nonfiction collection of essays about women in Greek myth, with the image of herself as a child, sitting on the sofa with her brother watching Clash of the Titans.
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