A writing instructor discovers a student with a rare happiness gene, sparking ethical debates on genetic enhancement.
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A writing instructor discovers a student with a rare happiness gene, sparking ethical debates on genetic enhancement.
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Starred Review. About halfway into Powers's follow-up to his National Book Award–winning The Echo Maker, a Nobel Prize-winning author, during a panel discussion, talks about how genetic enhancement represents the end of human nature.... A story with no end or impediment is no story at all. This then, is a story with both. Its hero, at least initially, is Russell Stone, a failed author of creative nonfiction turned reluctant writing instructor who cannot help transmitting ...
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Sexual content
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Brief mentions of romance and sexual selection; no explicit scenes depicted.
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Background references to war and violence in character's past; not graphic.
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Central themes of genetic ethics, science vs. humanism, and societal impact of enhancement.
Self-harm / suicide
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Background mention of war-related suffering in character's history.
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