by Jessica Chiarella
Science Fiction
Touchstone, 2016
What It's All About:
A sick, faded actress, a young art student with lung cancer, a mother who's been paralyzed for eight years, and an arrogant congressman with an aggressive brain tumor form an unlikely cohort whose alternating perspectives reveal what they now have in common. All newly emerged into physically healed versions of themselves following a memory "transfer," these four are prototypes of SUBlife, a cloning-based alternative to untimely death that provides new and improved substitute bodies. The problem is that no one is the same afterward, or even what other people expect them to be.
Read-Alikes:
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- We Are All Made of Stars by Rowan Coleman
Similar Authors:
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Dan Chaon
Read it if you like books that are:
- Character-driven
- Haunting
- Engaging
