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Bezig met laden... The Only Onesdoor Carola Dibbell, Miguel Cabrera (Artiest omslagafbeelding)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is really the first dystopian novel that I have ever read. I had a hard time at the beginning with the language, as I am not familiar with this genre. Inez creates Ani, who ends up being her "daughter" after a deal to sell her to an individual doesn't work out. Inez raises Ani and celebrates every day that she is alive. This really felt more to me about a story about the love of parents, regardless of how or when a child is born. Heard audiobook...the pacing and intonation of the reader, Jennifer Hubbard, greatly added to the pleasurre of this book. The story traced the development of an orphaned young adult from selling her body (valued for it's disease-resistant "hardy" genes) to seeing her own life as having some value. At some point we hear that she never had any friends, was basically shut up in a cellar for years, and only figures out about the world around her from others in her same social strata. The basic story combines future shade-tree science in a world falling apart (due to unrelenting population decimation from epidemics) with current prejudiced and classist social structure. And while the story had merit, I was more struck by how all the hardships Inez goes through, and the inner strength and determination she facees them with, and her constant fascination with learning something whenever she has a chance. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental Ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this experimentation is done. When the mother backs out at the last minute, Inez is left responsible for the product, which in this case is a baby girl, Ani. Inez must protect Ani, who is a scientific breakthrough, keeping her alive, dodging authorities and religious fanatics, and trying to provide Ani with the childhood that Inez never had, which means a stable home and an education" -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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If covid is a trigger for you, this book should be a hard pass. It was published in 2015 but some of it is uncanny (a never-ending pandemic with different new strains, surprise when children show up at school without masks, etc.) ( )