Frankenstein in Baghdad

This one surprised me by how easy it was to follow considering the number of characters, normally I can't for the life of me keep up with books that follow multiple characters and this one even scared me with a long list of characters at the beginning.

The juxtaposition of types of horrors, the bombings that are treated as routine, the degradation of the spaces where people live and of their connections and the more outright horror of the frankenstein (both of his existence and of his experience) make for a pretty uncomfortable and suffocating type of horror. There's also a vibrant charm about this book with characters that often come across as grandiosely peculiar in their own ways.