Book Club - February 6, 2025

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (bisexual, transgender, nonbinary)

Copies of the book are available for check-out behind the first floor desk at the Mead Public Library, although you’re welcome to come even if you don’t read the book.

The discussions take place on the first Thursday of every month from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Paradigm Coffee & Music.

Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein,…