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A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the reanimation process erased. With elements of science fiction, horror, political satire and romance, Chicano Frankenstein confronts our nation’s bigotries and the question of what it truly means to be human.
Publication Year: 2024
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Honestly I have very little to say about this one, which is a feat in and of itself.
Basically, make Frankenstein's monster into an American-born Latino person/mixed race white-Latino person and then replace "Mexicans" with "Stitchers" during Trump presidency era (but rename Trump and make him a woman).
That's it. The end. I dunno. The writing is dry, repetitive (exact repetitions of reoccurring events that . . . just don't hit), and the MC feels very ritualistic OCD coded (knocking 3 times, jogging start, repeating himself). Not my fave, even though it properly gives its dues to pan dulce.
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