Upcoming books
| NOBEL GENES (working title) |
It's tough to measure up to your parents' expectations. Imagine how much harder it would be if your mother told you that your biological father-whom you'd never met-was a Nobel prize-winning genius? What if, after years of testing and tutoring, you never showed that particular spark of brilliance? What if you found out that you'd been living a lie, and that the truth was darker than you could have imagined?
Does it matter who you come from? Or are we all just made of dust?
In Rune Michaels's most powerful novel yet, she examines the emotional truth of finding out who we are and where we come from.
Nobel Genes will be out from Simon and Schuster summer 2010.
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Excerpt
Mom has taught me that genes are important. Half of what I am came from my dad. But he came from his parents, and so on back through the ages, all the way back to the primordial soup I read about in the cosmology book.
That’s how I must think of it. I came from a puddle of mud back at the beginning of time. Everybody did.
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| FIX ME (working title) |
Fix Me will be out from Simon and Schuster in 2011.
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Excerpt
The morning sun drags me outside. I stand on the porch and turn my face up, feel the warmth seep into my skin, picture the sun's radiation searing my DNA, warping it until it goes crazy. My skin feels red and swollen when I go back into the house. I take a washcloth and hold it cold and wet against my skin, look in the mirror because it's safe now, my image is distorted by an afterimage of the sun burning itself into my retinas. It's safe now, because all I see is a shape, a shadow, not a person.
I'm broken. But nobody's trying to fix me.
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