Galatea
Madeleline Miller
Galatea is a character in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses. Artist Pygmalion, "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women", gives up the company of women and becomes a sculptor. Being by nature a creep, he sculpts his perfect woman and falls in love with it. He prays to Aphrodite that he might find a real woman like his statue, and she responds by giving his statue life. Eventually he marries her and they have a daughter, Paphos.
Although I have never read Ovid, I was familiar with this story, because George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called Pygmalion based (loosely) on the idea, and that play served as the basis for the musical My Fair Lady, which eventually became one of the most popular movies of all time. I'm going to guess that the number of readers who have seen My Fair Lady is much larger than the number who have read Ovid.
Madeline Miller's Galatea is a short story told from the point of view of Pygmalion's enlivened statue and wife, Galatea. It takes place about ten years after her being brought to life. It makes vivid the essential creepiness of Pygmalion's relationship to Galatea.