A Monster's Notes

Laurie Sheck's compelling and poetic philosophical narrative is many things at once: a ficticious biography of Mary Shelley that presupposes Frankenstein is everything more than imaginary. He approached her as a child mourning over hermother's grave and he perpetually ponders the meaning of his life and creation as Shelley writes writes about him and experiences numerous life events including childhood, her relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the births and deaths of her children, Shelley's drowning, and finally her won death from a brain tumor. A true astonishment, A Monster's Notes is a thrilling and haunting story about the obsessive desire to be understood.