How much can you retain of your physical self before you're not "you"
anymore? Eighty percent? Fifty percent? Ten percent? And if you had only
ten percent of yourself left, is your soul still intact?
Jenna Fox has been adored and loved by her parents since she was a baby.
Every step she made, every accomplishment she's ever done has been
recorded on video - and Jenna watches every year she was alive, up to
her sixteenth year. The thing is, she can't remember anything she
watches.
Jenna wakes up from a coma after a year and her life and memory has
altered. Her diet is different, her grandmother pushes her out of arms'
reach, and her mother has become more protective than ever. All Jenna
wants is a normal life, and the first step is going back to school.
There she meets several "outcasts" in an alternative school, where the
big topics are Thoreaus' Walden Pond and the responsibility of the FSEB,
the Federal Science Ethics Board.
Jenna slowly begins to recall memories and she struggles to find out
what happened her seventeenth year. And then it hits her - the accident,
the smell of death, her wanting to die - and the secret her parents have
been keeping from her comes out. JWhat she finds out is that the only
part of her that is the true Jenna Fox is the 10% of her brain, the
"butterfly" - the rest of lab-created. Jenna doesn't know what she is -
human or a science project.
Set in the future, this book deals with the possibility of science and
medicine and what happens when science begins to slowly take over. It's
a world of mutations, medical advances and questions of how far is too
far? A crisp-written book that will make the reader wonder what will
happen to Jenna and how she handles her life inside her own skin or as a
back-up in a computer. Do memories make a person, or is it more than
that?
Naomi Bates
Northwest High School Library
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