He can barely hear her over the rush of traffic. The soft, hopeful things Ariana tells him don’t help now. Once more he is just a marked kid, a week short of unwinding. Once more he can feel the rumble of the freeway beneath them, as cars pass by, not knowing or caring that he’s here. but she lets go, the moment passes, and the world around him returns. For that instant, Connor feels invincible, untouchable.

“Connor, I’m so sorry.” She holds him, and for a moment it seems as if everything is okay, as if they are the only two people on Earth. He still can’t believe that his life is being stolen from him at sixteen.Īriana’s violet eyes begin to shine as they fill with tears that flow down her cheeks when she blinks. He tries not to think about the fact that he’ll never see the summer again. The only color on his skin is the tan it takes during the summer, but now, in November, that tan has long faded. He never even got tattoos, like so many kids get these days when they’re little. He’s always kept his eyes the color they came in. She’s such a slave to fashion-always getting the newest pigment injection the second it’s in style. Her eyes are sweet violet with streaks of gray.

“There are places you can go,” Ariana tells him, “and a guy as smart as you has a decent chance of surviving to eighteen.”Ĭonnor isn’t so sure, but looking into Ariana’s eyes makes his doubts go away, if only for a moment. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines complex moral issues that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end. With breathtaking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting and Lev, his parents’ tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called 'unwinding.' Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen.

The first twisted and futuristic novel in the perennially popular New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.

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