
Chicano Frankenstein
Author: Daniel A. Olivas
Narrator: Thom Rivera
Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/05/2024
Categories: Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, Science Fiction, Mashups

Author: Daniel A. Olivas
Narrator: Thom Rivera
Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/05/2024
Categories: Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, Science Fiction, Mashups
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, Zócalo, and the London 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.
Chicano Frankenstein is a retelling of the classic Frankenstein in a modern America where modern technology have allowed for dead people to be stitched together from different body parts of different people and reanimated. These reanimated people do not have memories from their past lives and cannot......more
Inspired by the Classic- Frankenstein, this story is set up in the modern world, following a reanimated human performing his mundane tasks of daily life. His monotony is however disturbed when he meets a woman who has him questioning, appreciating and living. With newer developments in his social ci......more
I’ve always had a sweet spot for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, regardless of how many times I had to read it for course work throughout college, so this book definitely caught my attention. This book isn’t exactly the same as Shelley’s novel, but it’s amazing in its own way. I really enjoyed the worl......more
Audio. This book made me ask some questions and not good ones. ‘Is this self-published?’ ‘Is this a YA novel?’ ‘Why do I feel like a Boomer reading this?’ ‘Does this attorney/writer not value his own paralegals?’ Interesting idea of a book with this new patchwork creature as allegory to marginalized......more
“Thom Rivera pulls out all the stops with this intriguing Latinx retelling…Rivera’s rich voice adds depth to the characters. He also delivers female voices in a believable pitch and deftly uses various accents when needed.” AudioFile
“Urgently relevant.” Latino Book Review
“Takes a magnifying glass to American life and politics.” Latinx Pop Magazine
“[A]s fascinating modern retelling…part science fiction and part political satire…Readers will have no trouble sympathizing with the main character as he works to remember who he once was.” Publishers Weekly
“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
“With 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.” Orlando Ortega-Medina, author of The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants