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Published June 15, 1990

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978-0-440-20766-5
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THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .But there is something, Eva senses, that she's not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?From the Paperback edition.

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I first read this decades ago as a pre-teen and it absolutely stuck with me. Turns out, mostly the very beginning and very end, but the story between those visceral feelings of non-human connection is solid challenging ethically complex YA too.

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