Set in New York City in alternating time periods – the 1950s and the early 2000s – Pollock’s Last Lover is the engrossing tale of two women whose lives collide as they contend with the art and legacy of the brilliant, tragic painter Jackson Pollock.

Love & Other Monsters, a new novel by Emily Franklin, is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters — both those on the page and those who walk among us.