NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “captivating villain origin story” ( People Book of the Week)
reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful
young heroine “Ayana Gray brings her fresh dynamic storytelling to one of the most
monstered maligned and misunderstood women of Greek myth imagining all the girls that Medusa
was and could have been.”—Jennifer Saint bestselling author of Ariadne AN NPR BEST BOOK OF
THE YEAR Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else’s story. Out of place
next to her beautiful immortal sisters and her parents—both gods albeit minor ones—she dreams
of leaving her family’s island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the
goddess Athena who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple Meddy leaps at
the chance to see the world beyond her home. In the colorful market streets of Athens and the
clandestine chambers of the temple Meddy flourishes in her role as Athena’s favored acolyte
getting her first tastes of purpose and power. But when she is noticed by another Olympian
Poseidon the course of Meddy’s promising future is suddenly and irrevocably altered. When her
locs are transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit Medusa must
embrace a new identity—not as a victim but as a vigilante—and with it the chance to write her
own story as mortal martyr and myth. Exploding with rage heartbreak and love I Medusa
portrays a young woman caught in the crosscurrents between her heart’s deepest desires and the
cruel careless games the Olympian gods play.
