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lbjo 's review for:
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein
by Anne Eekhout
a fabulist history of mary shelley's travels— her time in cologny during the inception/writing of frankenstein, and her months spent in scotland as a teenager
eekhout does a fantastic job of imbuing shelley's life with magic, of giving a sense of her as someone who feels deeply & who connects deeply with fantasy and storytelling and myth. this is also a novel that's about grief: the grief of losing a child, the grief of becoming a mother when one's own mother is dead, the grief of losing a lover / a friend / a certain understanding of the world
the translator also did a brilliant job with the prose, i enjoyed reading this!
eekhout does a fantastic job of imbuing shelley's life with magic, of giving a sense of her as someone who feels deeply & who connects deeply with fantasy and storytelling and myth. this is also a novel that's about grief: the grief of losing a child, the grief of becoming a mother when one's own mother is dead, the grief of losing a lover / a friend / a certain understanding of the world
the translator also did a brilliant job with the prose, i enjoyed reading this!