Jeanette WintersonLiterary Fiction · Fiction·b. 1959
Frankissstein
Synopsis
In 1816, Mary Shelley writes her famous story about creating life. In present-day Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor, Ry, falls in love with Victor Stein, a professor working on artificial intelligence. The novel switches between these two stories, exploring modern anxieties about technology, gender, and the future of humanity. It's a smart, strange love story that re-examines what it means to be human when we have the power to create new beings.
How it reads
Prose complexity 10/10