The Secret

by Eva Hoffman

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This is the debut novel from Eva Hoffman. It deals with secrets, roots and identity with the same grace and elegance she used throughout her non-fiction writing.

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This is definitely a book for thinkers. There is not much action, but a lot of interesting questions. It is about a 17 year-old girl who reflects back on her childhood and comes to realize that her mother is keeping a secret from her. After she finds out what the secret is, she has to cope with it. She goes out on her own to figure out what it really means: What it means to be human, and what makes individuals unique.
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What's it about? Eighteen-year-old protagonist, born in 2004, discovers that she is her mother's clone, and spends the rest of the book working through her resentment against her family and others.

Is 2022 really going to be like that? Not unless cloning technology had got a lot further in 2004 than we realised.

Is it any good? Moody young women are often quite a good read, and this isn't awful.
Even skipping some of the longer body-image rants, I still feel I spent more time reading this book than it deserved.

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Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland and eventually emigrated to Canda with her family. She received a Ph. D. from Harvard University. She taught literature and was the editor of the New York Times Book Review. Hoffman is the author of such books as Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1989) and Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small show more Town and the World of Polish Jews (1997). (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6108 .O34 .S43Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature2001-
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