Seventeen-year-old Calico Brown\u2019s 14-year-old sister, Asha, was being treated for cancer when she died. Calico made a hasty deal with an opportunistic man named Lucas Fates and persuades her mum to agree: The sisters will be cryogenically frozen in the hope that Asha can be reanimated when a cure has been found. Calico\u2019s own freezing\u2014assisting with their research as payment for Asha\u2019s treatment\u2014is supposed to be brief and followed by two years at the research facility in the U.S. Grim chapters alternate between Calico\u2019s frantic, fearful first-person perspective and Asha\u2019s short, lyrical poems, tracing a story of unethical medical practices. Calico\u2019s voice prickles with dread with each discovery she makes. Clark\u2019s debut includes a diverse cast of teens who also live at the facility, including Jem, an English boy who constantly talks to his dead brother; Taylor, who got the gender affirmation surgery his family couldn\u2019t afford at the facility; and Veda, who\u2019s from India and has had a leg amputated due to an error in her freezing process. White-presenting Calico\u2019s singular focus on finding Asha propels the story even as she falls for Jem and yearns to escape. The book explores provocative scenarios including forced reproduction, but both the large cast and abundant ideas are too briefly developed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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