In a near-future America divided by fear and profit, a man is brought back from the dead through a controversial process that erases his memories but not his humanity. Reanimated and unnamed, he struggles to find belonging in a society that both needs his labor and despises his existence.
When he falls in love with Faustina Godínez, a lawyer whose family embraces him as one of their own, he begins to piece together the truth of who he was before. But in a world driven by political hatred and corporate greed, knowledge can be as dangerous as resurrection itself.
Blending science fiction, satire, and romance, Daniel A. Olivas’s Chicano Frankenstein reimagines Mary Shelley’s myth as a powerful exploration of identity, love, and assimilation.
