ASIN: B079R8G8VT
Publisher: (February 11, 2018)
Pages: 220
A world where daughters bear their parents' children.Young Hanna thinks her thirteenth birthday will be no different than the one before--until her mother explains the facts of life. Hanna is a "bridge daughter," born pregnant with her parents' child. In a few months she will give birth and die, leaving her parents with their true child to raise.A mature bookworm who dreams of college and career, Hanna is determined to overcome her biological fate. Navigating through a world eerily like our own, she confronts unyielding attitudes and instinctive fears as old as humankind itself.Then Hanna learns of an illegal procedure that will allow her to live to adulthood...at the cost of the child's life."Nelson smoothly realizes a provocative alternate present seen through the eyes of naive adolescent Hanna Driscoll ... Hanna is an engaging protagonist, and her thought-provoking story blends ...
