Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a coma, and she's still recovering from the accident she has been told caused it. But why does her body not seem quite right to her? Why can't she remember anything about who she was before? Why does her grandmother seem to hate her? As Jenna gradually recovers her memories, and starts to put two and two together, she realizes that the explanation she has been given isn't anywhere close to what really happened. But why would her own parents lie to her?

How far should a parent go to save a child? This engrossing and thought-provoking story takes place in the relatively near future, where biotechnology has progressed to the point that human organs can be grown in a lab. Jenna discovers that her heartbroken parents saved her life by illegally using technology developed by her father's company to recreate her body and mind, using only the ten percent of her brain that could be saved. Is she human or not? Teens may be interested in the discussions of environmental and medical ethics. This book takes the universal teen question "Who am I" to a new level. Jenna's story is not only about discovering who she was before her accident, but who she really is afterwards, and defining what her unique place in the world will be.

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