false 582832 5 Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, Lucy and Gray’s home life is strangely out of touch with the modern world—except for Lucy’s high-tech lab in the basement. Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to attain motherhood or tenure, Lucy takes drastic measures to achieve both. Using a bloodstained scrap of an apron found in the attic, Lucy successfully clones her grandmother Mary. But rather than conjuring a new baby, Lucy brings to life a twenty-two-year-old Mary, who is confused and disoriented when she finds herself trapped in the strangest sort of déjà vu: alive in a home that is no longer her own, surrounded by reminders of a life she has already lived but doesn’t remember. A remarkable debut novel, Mary Modern turns an unflinching eye on the joyous, heartbreaking, and utterly unexpected consequences of human desire. 2237003 9 7 2007 Mary Modern total:265|5:42|4:94|3:86|2:31|1:12| 265 918 426 93 5 12 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 22:57:44 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 07:47:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 24 22:45:15 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 03 06:28:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 14:06:58 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 17:20:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 15 13:38:56 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 13:46:01 -0800 2008
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Living in her crumbling ancestral house and frustrated with impediments to her scientific research and her own infertility, geneticist Lucy Morrigan decides to clone a baby. Using DNA obtained from her grandmother's stained apron in the attic, Lucy thinks she will simultaneously achieve...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 21:14:10 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 21:17:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jul 08 08:19:26 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 08:29:25 -0700 2008 Then I started reading. The book is written in present tense. And is completely non-sequitor. Conversations ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 13 16:23:38 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 16:28:03 -0700 2008
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