Medusa's daughter
By: by Jonathon Scott Fuqua.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933368917
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human -- Fiction; Freak shows -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Gorgons (Greek mythology) -- Fiction; Europe, Eastern -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Fifteen-year-old sideshow star Maia Vitikos is enslaved by brutal huckster Rictus Finch, who claims he rescued her when her Gorgon-mother left her to die, but as the carnival travels through small, Eastern European towns, her friend Skelly teaches her to think about her life and its possibilities.