Authors: Jessica Chiarella
And Again (40 page)
© SHANE COLLINS
Jessica Chiarella grew up in the Chicago area and has a Master’s in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University. She is currently a student in the University of California, Riverside’s MFA in Creative Writing program, where she received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship Award.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Jessica Chiarella
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chiarella, Jessica.
And again : a novel / Jessica Chiarella.
pages cm
Summary: “A debut novel about four previously terminally ill people who must grapple with the reality of reentering their lives after being granted genetically perfect copies of their former bodies, and the unimaginable consequences and entanglements that follow.”— Provided by publisher.
1. Terminally ill—Fiction. 2. Human cloning—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.H536A53 2015
813'.6—dc23
2015010621
ISBN 978-1-5011-1610-0
ISBN 978-1-5011-1612-4 (ebook)