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Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, queer, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a tale of doom and ambition and loss and revenge and murder.
“小 籠 包/xiǎolóngbāo/soup dumplings, congee/粥/zhōu, guàbāo/割包/pork belly bun, please, readers, pay close attention to food in Addie Tsai’s Unwieldy Creatures, and how it exists simultaneously in Mandarin and English, which makes food not only sustenance, but a communicative doorway between worlds and people.
Even the protagonist, Plum, who wonders if ‘communication with another is the only thing we have to keep us from the darker depths’ serves as a communicative doorway—Unwieldy Creatures, as a whole, keeps us from darker depths.” —Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat
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