A review by cyborgforty
The Exhibition of Persephone Q by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

4.0

i am kind of obsessed with frankenstein & i feel like in some ways this feels like a frankenstein retelling, perspectives within perspectives, letters & emails & internet, a protagonist about to bear child yet telling no one. instead of the pov shifts like in frankenstein, you have percy narrating the entire novel, but the slip in chronology during part 2 when she's telling her backstory to her fiance feels like the creature's tale. i think this novel scratched my personal interests (art institutions & art history, urban life, post-graduation, startup culture, greek mythology) in all the right ways; the prose was beautifully written, the characters were haunting, and honestly i'm in love with misha (men written by women amiriteeee).