The organ donor sticker may be the last thing on your mind when you (finally!) get your driver's license, but Unwind might just bring it to the front.
At the end of the long and bloody second Civil War, the American government enacted the Bill of Life, a compromise between the pro-life and pro-choice armies and a solution to the organ donor problem. Life, it states, is sacred, and a human life may not be touched from conception until death... except between the ages of 13 and 18. At that time, parents may choose, for various reasons, to 'unwind' their children, a process by which the child's life is not ended, but redistributed.
Bad boy Connor, not-quite-musical-enough Risa, and devoted tithe Lev are Unwinds who meet on the run from their parents, their friends, and the government. Forced together, they must survive underground until they reach their 18th birthdays.
This book not only gave me the most fantastic case of the creeps in all the right ways, it stuck with me long after I read it. If you've ever questioned the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, check out Unwind by Neal Shusterman @ the library!
Megan
Now reading: Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfours
Can't wait for: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini, coming to a library near you on September 20th!
At the end of the long and bloody second Civil War, the American government enacted the Bill of Life, a compromise between the pro-life and pro-choice armies and a solution to the organ donor problem. Life, it states, is sacred, and a human life may not be touched from conception until death... except between the ages of 13 and 18. At that time, parents may choose, for various reasons, to 'unwind' their children, a process by which the child's life is not ended, but redistributed.
Bad boy Connor, not-quite-musical-enough Risa, and devoted tithe Lev are Unwinds who meet on the run from their parents, their friends, and the government. Forced together, they must survive underground until they reach their 18th birthdays.
This book not only gave me the most fantastic case of the creeps in all the right ways, it stuck with me long after I read it. If you've ever questioned the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, check out Unwind by Neal Shusterman @ the library!
Megan
Now reading: Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfours
Can't wait for: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini, coming to a library near you on September 20th!