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378 pp.
| Abrams/Amulet
| September, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4197-2570-8$17.99
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YA
Eighteen-year-old Londoner Rosa becomes the world's first survivor of a brain transplant after her healthy brain is transplanted from her quadriplegic body into brain-dead Sylvia's body. Rosa becomes fixated on the prior life of the girl whose body she now inhabits, leading Rosa on her own soul-searching road trip. Despite some implausible scenarios and too-neat resolutions, Young has envisioned an original and compelling concept.