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Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel A. Olivas
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Chicano Frankenstein

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Narrator Thom Rivera

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Length 5 hours 24 minutes
Language English
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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 Godรญnez.

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 nationโ€™s bigotries and the question of what it truly means to be human.

Daniel A. Olivas is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry. He has written on culture and literature for the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Alta Journal, Jewish Journal, Zรณcalo, and the Londonย Guardian. He writes regularly for La Bloga, a site dedicated to Latinx literature and the arts. The grandson of Mexican immigrants, he was born and raised near downtown Los Angeles.

Read by Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Bernadette Dunne, and Kyla Garcia

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Reviews

โ€œWith its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, this important novel is at once frightening and humorous, and I found myself laughing out loud more than once as Olivas cleverly delivered his cautionary message, served with a basket of fresh baked pan dulce.โ€

โ€œThe 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!โ€

โ€œThom Rivera pulls out all the stops with this intriguing Latinx retellingโ€ฆRiveraโ€™s rich voice adds depth to the characters. He also delivers female voices in a believable pitch and deftly uses various accents when needed.โ€

โ€œUrgently relevant.โ€

โ€œTakes a magnifying glass to American life and politics.โ€ 

โ€œ[A]s fascinating modern retellingโ€ฆpart science fiction and part political satireโ€ฆReaders will have no trouble sympathizing with the main character as he works to remember who he once was.โ€

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