11/15/2025
🌩️ Inspired by the recent success of Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, we have decided to run a limited time sale on Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai. Our sale will run until the last dreary night of November. Be sure to purchase your copy for only $13 before this shocking promotion ends!
“Addie Tsai’s novel Unwieldy Creatures is a q***r, contemporary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein set in Indonesia and the American South. The novel explores the transgressive nature of existing as a q***r body, an “unwieldy creature,” in a society whose obsession with bodily perfection and beauty serves as a tool for reinforcing heteronormative standards of behavior. Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein becomes Tsai’s Dr. Frank, a q***r biracial woman whose dysfunctional experiences of parental affection at home lead her into becoming obsessed with creating the perfect creature birthed from the bodies of two same-s*x partners: herself and her female lover named Hana. What starts out as a q***r scientist’s striving to birth a creature that is perfect to behold—which Dr. Frank envisions as a means for her and Hana to gain acceptance in a world that rejects q***r bodies like their own—results in tragedy. Hana gives birth to an ugly giant that Dr. Frank finds herself incapable of loving, upending Dr. Frank’s mission of creating a being out of her own unwieldy body that she can love as her own.” -Electric Lit.
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