This book's story could be taken from the headlines of just about any newspaper.
Eli’s mother is dying with Huntington’s chorea. This dreadful genetic disease causes progressive neural and muscular deterioration; there is no treatment or cure.
Does Elli have this defective gene? Worried about his mother and unable to communicate with his emotionally distant dad, he decides to take a "gap year" and work before attending college.
Aware of some mysterious family connection with Dr. Wyatt at Wyatt Transgenics, he applies and is hired as a lab assistant there. Eli’s girlfriend, Viv, is his one lifeline during this time. Bits and pieces of the mystery unfold as Eli discovers he is in fact not carrying this gene because his mother has participated in genetic engineering experimentation. At what cost?
Lots of ethical questions here in a powerful suspense story.
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