Lucy
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"This is a Borzoi book."
Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy's father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment. She is part human, part ape, a hybrid human being.
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Very good submitted by zmclaugh on July 27, 2018, 8:54pm Really well done and explores this issue in detail and realistically. Things near the end are a little unbelievable, but overall I love this book.
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A Knopf, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307272607
0307272605
SUBJECTS
Genetic engineering -- Fiction.
Primatologists -- Fiction.
Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- United States -- Fiction.
Biotechnology -- Fiction.
Humanity -- Fiction.