It says I want it be more inclusively representational. It says I honor and pay tribute to Mary Shelley.
Addie Tsai is in many ways faithful to Mary Shelley's masterpiece, while still inventing something of her own, which is the key test because ultimately what is the point of a retelling? Isn't that just a very elaborate cheat? UNWIELDY CREATURES says no. There is much that makes UNWIELDY CREATURES distinct and unique from its inspiration. “I feel like I could talk about this novel for a long, long time. Even the protagonist, Plum, who wonders if ‘communication with another is the only thing we have to keep us from the darker depths’ serves as a communicative doorway- Unwieldy Creatures, as a whole, keeps us from darker depths.” -Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat “小 籠 包/xiǎolóngbāo/soup dumplings, congee/粥/zhōu, guàbāo/割包/pork belly bun, please, readers, pay close attention to food in Addie Tsai’s Unwieldy Creatures, and how it exists simultaneously in Mandarin and English, which makes food not only sustenance, but a communicative doorway between worlds and people. I’m hooked.” -Kiese Laymon, MacArthur Fellow Addie Tsai manages to hold on to the useful parts of tradition while creating a wholly original revision of Frankenstein. “ Unwieldy Creatures, unrelenting in its inventiveness and its ambition, is easily the most innovative book I’ve read in years. Two queer scientists and the nonbinary creation one of them makes? Sign me up.” -BookRiot “When I learned that it’s a queer, biracial retelling of Frankenstein…I couldn’t hit that preorder button fast enough. And after my own heart, Addie Tsai has gifted us this breathtaking retelling full of queer, biracial, gender-swapping goodness.” “If you know the literary me, you know my mad love for Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. “A true original and a perfect example of a flip from a historical classic to a contemporary one.” -Buzzfeed News What others are saying about UNWIELDY CREATURES: How far will Plum go in the name of scientific advancement and what is she willing to risk? Frank offers her a chance to assist with her next project. Plum struggles to determine the limits of her own ambition when Dr. Frank’s nonbinary creation, painstakingly brought into the world due to complications at birth that result from a cruel twist of revenge, only to be abandoned. Frank, a queer biracial Indonesian scientist who compromises everything she claims to love in the name of science and ambition when she sets out to procreate without sperm or egg and Dr.
Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial queer, non-binary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world’s top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own Dr. A tale of doom and ambition, loss and revenge, love and murder.
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