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Publishers Weekly praises this debut novel by Texan poet Jillian Weise as "ambitious, provocative, and wildly inventive." It's 2015, and Anne Hatley is leaving her North Carolina home for a Long Island research lab called the Colony. Anne, who was born with a genetic mutation that left her only one leg, will be donating stem cells for gene research in exchange for a new leg. But after meeting others with deficiencies, including carriers of the "suicide gene" and "obesity gene," Anne questions how much genetics really determine a person's life.
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"I believed every minute of this book. The narrator is likable in a flawed, human way. It's unselfconciously clever and I love the way she breaks up the narrative. People I like would like this "
— Beth (5 out of 5 stars)
The Colony Listener Reviews
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" I'm reviewing this and 2 others to decide what to read next. If I just go by the back cover, I have to wonder if it's Dublin material. <br/> <br/>Sorry, this is not for me. I read some reviews of it and I will not be putting it on my list to read later. "
— Ingrid, 10/2/2010
About Jillian Weise
The Cyborg Jillian Weise is the author of one novel and three books of poetry, the most recent of which, Cyborg Detective, won the 2020 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Cy’s work has appeared in Granta, the New York Times, Poetry, and elsewhere. She created and performed the fictional character Tipsy Tullivan for a web series that ran from 2016 to 2020. During the pandemic, Cy wrote and directed the video play A Kim Deal Party. Weise has been awarded residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program, and the Lannan Foundation.
About Morgan Hallett
Morgan Hallett is a New York City-based actress, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. She has worked extensively throughout the country and on Broadway. She is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and has lent her voice to dozens of television commercials, including Time Warner Cable, 7-Up, and Accuvue.