![]() ![]() The result is Mary, a 22-year old clone of Lucy’s grandmother who retains the memories of her life up to that point in September 1929 when she inadvertently left a sample of the DNA that made her replication possible. ![]() ![]() Lucy Morrigan and her boyfriend Gray are incapable of having a child through conventional methods, so Lucy-who happens to be a scientist researching genetics/cloning-decides to try a much more controversial approach. Story-wise, “ Mary Modern’s” premise played a large part in what attracted me to the book in the first place. In plainer terms, I thought “ Mary Modern” was both an accomplished debut and a disappointment. While “ Mary Modern” is an impressively ambitious first offering, I couldn’t help but be reminded of another critically-acclaimed debut- Rebecca Stott’s “ Ghostwalk”-that I had mixed feelings about. For a while now, Camille DeAngelis’ “ Mary Modern” has been on my radar and I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into the copy that was so graciously provided by Shaye Areheart Books who released the novel on July 10, 2007. ![]()
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