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288 pp.
| Simon Pulse
| September, 2017
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TradeISBN 978-1-5072-0005-6$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-5072-0006-3
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YA
When her emotions are high, talented coder Luisa Ochoa-Jones experiences "sensory misfires": sights have temperature, sounds have taste, etc. Still, she wants life after high school to be on her own terms and pursues a big-name tech scholarship--which, it turns out, might help her save humanity from a deadly flu epidemic. The novel's not-too-distant-future setting and somber but urgent tone should prompt deep existential thoughts.