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Chicano Frankenstein Paperback – March 5, 2024
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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.
- Print length222 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherForest Avenue Press
- Publication dateMarch 5, 2024
- Dimensions6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101942436599
- ISBN-13978-1942436591
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"An intriguing read."
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"An exciting contemporary adaptation."
—Book Riot
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—Literary Hub
"Takes a magnifying glass to American life and politics."
—Latinx Pop Magazine
"Inventive and compellingly readable."
—The Rumpus
"Urgently relevant."
—Latino Book Review
"Clever political commentary."
—Foreword Reviews
"An arresting thought experiment."
—Publishers Weekly
"Captivating."
—Daily Journal
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"Explores deep themes of identity, belonging, assimilation, and the essence of humanity."
—Hispanic Executive
“If you’re looking for a reverberating literary experiment in a speedy read, Daniel Olivas’s Chicano Frankenstein is the book for you. In this literary pastiche of timeless novels, beloved TV, and familiar political narratives, the love story of Faustina and the man will reanimate your deepest expectations of humanism into new understandings of monstrosity.”
—Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
—Orlando Ortega-Medina, author of The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
“In the genre-bending tradition of Mary Shelley, Daniel Olivas's latest novel Chicano Frankenstein expertly stitches together gothic political satire, science fiction, and existential metafiction to expose the racist and classist hypocrisies that undergird the American political economy under tyrannical right-wing leaders.”
—Eileen M. Hunt, author of Artificial Life After Frankenstein
"In a near-future Pasadena, Daniel A. Olivas resurrects Mary Shelley's creation to glorious effect, making it clear who the monsters really are in a world where a cynical government sees resurrected humans as pawns to use, abuse, and discard. The real trick of this speculative political satire is that corruption and peril co-exist with compassion, humor, and large doses of Chicano joy. I loved every page-turning minute!"
—Michelle Ruiz Keil, author of Summer in the City of Roses
“Haunting in its implications, astute in its observations about how polarized we’ve become around the simple question of what it means to be human, Daniel Olivas’s Chicano Frankenstein is ultimately an empathetic exploration of the heart told in spare, but beautiful prose. Olivas is a master storyteller and this book is another of his triumphs!”
—Rubén Degollado, author of The Family Izquierdo
"Based on the story of a monster, this book is about a man created from more than one corpse—reanimated from spare parts, as it were—and, in a world that looks and feels very much like our modern world, made to feel other and much less than human."
—Jennifer Silva Redmond, author of Honeymoon at Sea
“…a major American talent.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Good Night, Irene
“Daniel Olivas is an exciting writer whose prose rings with humor, insight, and power.”
—Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles
“Olivas is adept at establishing character in a sentence or two; he creates an image, a moment of self-deception, in which we come to know these characters intimately and easily imagine their entire lives...”
—Los Angeles Times
“[A]n important voice in Latinx literature.”
—BuzzFeed
“Daniel Olivas is a real modern-day superhero. Land use and conservation attorney by day and poet, playwright, fiction author, editor, and essayist by night, Olivas works relentlessly to transform our world for the better.”
—American Book Review
“Olivas’s work is surreal, dystopian, critical, and introspective, ultimately moving into contemporary political rhetoric.”
—Alta Journal
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- Publisher : Forest Avenue Press (March 5, 2024)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 222 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1942436599
- ISBN-13 : 978-1942436591
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #31 in Hispanic American Literature & Fiction
- #78 in Legal Thrillers (Books)
- #2,029 in Science Fiction (Books)
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About the author
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of 12 books including Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press, 2024), My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (University of Nevada Press, 2024), and How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2022). He is also a playwright, editor, and book critic. Widely anthologized, Olivas has written on literature for The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Zocálo, Latino Book Review, and The Rumpus. He earned his degree in English literature from Stanford University, and law degree from UCLA.
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Inspired primarily by Shelley’s famous novel and current US politics, Olivas brings us the story of an unnamed protagonist in near future California. Our protagonist is a reanimated human stitched together out of 3 people, he has no memory of his past and lives a fairly rigid life, until he meets the lovely, but blunt, Faustina. As his relationship with Faustina develops the man starts to really question his origins and what it means to be human, and loved. He explores this and it leads to a somewhat unfinished but mostly happy ending though it seems storm clouds are gathering at the periphery, leading the reader to make inferences, and ponder for themselves current events through a new lense of understanding
“The man” seemed to have a very logical, almost a robotic, feel to him, and he actually reminded me a lot of Star Trek: TNG’s character, Data. It’s understandable though, given that he has no history or family, and basically became a clean slate only 3 years ago. Through his interactions with Faustina, I think his character grows, and he starts to feel more human.
The book has a very abrupt ending, leaving me feeling like there were things I still didn’t understand or feel were resolved. It felt like things were starting to get really interesting, to suddenly come to a screeching halt. Maybe that’s the point, since it keeps you thinking, but it just didn’t work for me. In the end, the book fell a bit short for me, but it definitely had some interesting concepts in it.
Thank you to Forest Avenue Press and Edelweiss for the review copy of Chicano Frankenstein. All opinions expressed in my review are completely my own.