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    Nobel Genes
    Nobel Genes
    Nobel Genes
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    Nobel Genes

    By Rune Michaels

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    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? NOBEL GENES is the story of just such a boy. His life consists of a series of halves; his genes are half from a donor bank that featured Nobel winners. After years of testing and tutoring, he only lives up to his mother's expectations halfway. He spends half his time sharing in his mother’s manic ups and the other half in her depressive downs. And he always has to be half-awake in the middle of the night so that when his mother wakes up and plays with her pills, he can count them and make sure the proper amount are still there before he goes to sleep.

    Perhaps him being a “Nobel son” is a dream. Or a hope. Or a delusion. No matter what it is to his mother, it becomes devastation when he learns that his genius history is a lie. And once the truth is revealed, there is no going back. Even when he thought he discovered the most important truth, in his dreams, he finds one answer that he never imagined. Does it matter who you come from? Or are we all just made from dust?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateAug 10, 2010
    ISBN9781442407176
    Nobel Genes
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    Rune Michaels

    Rune Michaels studied psychology at the University of Iceland and at the University of Copenhagen. Her books include Genesis Alpha, The Reminder, and Nobel Genes. She lives with her family in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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      Decent book but not really good. The boy narrator (no name or age) lives with his mentally ill mother. She has always told him that his father was a Nobel prize winner who donated his sperm to a sperm bank, but eventually he discovers that this is not true. His mother is so ill, though, that he really cares for him rather than the other way around and she can't tell him the truth -- and may not know it anymore, anyway. Her eventual overdose leads him to many hidden secrets.

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