Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, first published anonymously in London, but more often known by the revised third edition of 1831 under her own name. It is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an

rational thinking and behavior

A writer at a remote cabin befriends the mother of an ex-lover

the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town

Thien has crafted a novel that is at once beautifully intimate and grandly political

“This book is a contemporary classic—a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks

A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR

and a drift into the unknown

Auctioning admission to elite universities

until we encounter the spectres of history - both the world's and our own

and hemorrhaging forehead (from staring at the blank page)

enigma and wit in bucketloads' - Elizabeth Macneal

and the right to self-determination for those with cognitive differences