Stone Blind is a novel retelling the Greek myth of the gorgon Medusa.
[1] The story follows the life of Medusa, from her birth until the aftermath of her beheading by the demigod Perseus.
[2] Several stories, including those of Medusa and Perseus' separate upbringings, the conflict between the Olympian gods and the Giants, and the pained relationship between Hera and her son Hephaestus, are told simultaneously,[3] through a non-linear structure.
[4] The novel uses familiar dynamics and frustrations to modernize the retelling, while placing it firmly in the mythological past.
This is personified by the violent actions of Zeus and Poseidon, as well as the cruel machinations of Hera and Athena, towards mortals and monsters alike.