Robin Solit: Mademoiselle Frankenstein, Gebunden

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SEALED WITH A KISS

Death is as common as breath. Amid the bloody turmoil of the American Revolution, young Océane Frankenstein uses her misbegotten knowledge and aching sorrows to usurp the bounds of mortality, crafting life from death. Thus awakens a tragic being who does not assuage his maker, but mirrors the tormented depths of her soul.

The story of Océane and her Creature is born of violence and sublime terror. Of grief and obsession. Of love and loneliness. Of beauty and tenderness. And of the tangled bond between creator and creation.

Mademoiselle Frankenstein is a haunting reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic tale, revealing that in the end, the real horror is longing for those who can only be longed for.

I crept in darkness and concealment...snowbound secret nights when no one saw....