Status Updates From Frankenstein in Bagdad (Ger...

“Nothing in me lasts long, other than my desire to keep going.”

A key difference between this and the original Frankenstein is the misogyny. This novel just has a lot of negative elements about the few women in the novel. It’s Nawal— who is branded as a whore and whose perspective we never truly get— and Elishiva — who is branded as a crazy old woman. I do think part of that is that this is written by a man