Unwind (Unwind Dystology #1)
Author(s): Neal Shusterman
In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding."
Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn't "technically" end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.
With breath-taking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines serious moral issues in a way that will keep readers turning the pages to see if Connor, Risa, and Lev avoid meeting their untimely ends.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- : Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- : 0.318
- : 31 October 2012
- : 210mm X 139mm X 24mm
- : United States
- : 01 December 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Neal Shusterman
- : Paperback / softback
- : 0906
- : English
- : Fic
- : 335