Wednesday, October 11, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Wilkins Plaza, Wilkins Plaza Tent, between the Johnson Center & Horizon Hall, George Mason University
Addie Tsai’s Unwieldy Creatures is a biracial queer, non-binary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which follows three beings who navigate life from the margins: an intern at an embryology lab; a scientist who risks everything to procreate without sperm or egg; and her nonbinary creation, painstakingly brought into the world, only to be abandoned. Author Kiese Laymon says “Unwieldy Creatures, unrelenting in its inventiveness and its ambition, is easily the most innovative book I’ve read in years. Addie Tsai manages to hold on to the useful parts of tradition while creating a wholly original revision of Frankenstein. I’m hooked.”
