![]() ![]() ![]() She no longer feels completely human, and the remainder of the book involves her journey with “Grog” Kennedy to help integrate a small grouping of chimps into the wild. When she is finally allowed to join the “Pool” of research chimps, the reader can see the writing on the wall – Eva longs to join them. As the human and chimp aspects war with each other, she starts to long for her own kind. She becomes the symbol for a new movement, whether she likes it or not. She doesn’t want it to be that way, but accepts it as inevitable. ![]() The way she and her parents relate to each other starts to change. Eva makes her way through physical therapy, reconnects with her human friends, adjusts to new clothes and a new face that looks out of a mirror back at her. Her father is a well regarded animal researcher working with a chimpanzee population, and she has grown up with chimps, so everyone is hoping that this will work out well. As the result of a car accident, she was in an irreversible coma until the decision was made to try to transplant her brain into the body of a chimp. In a vague futuristic world, Eva has just woken up in a hospital bed where she can’t move her arms or legs. ![]() Eva, Peter Dickinson, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1988 (ISBN # 0440207665) ![]()
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