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Knopf
July 2010
On Sale: July 13, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0307272605
EAN: 9780307272607
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Fiction Family Life
Laurence Gonzales’s electrifying adventure opens in the
jungles of the Congo. Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying
chimpanzees—the bonobos—is running for her life. A civil war has exploded and Jenny is trapped in its
crosshairs . . . She runs to the camp of a fellow primatologist. The rebels have already been there. Everyone is dead except a young girl, the daughter of
Jenny’s brutally murdered fellow scientist—and competitor. Jenny and the child flee, 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 . . . Laurence Gonzales’s novel grabs you from its opening pages
and you stay with it, mesmerized by the shy but fierce,
wonderfully winning Lucy.
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