Spare and Found Parts, Sarah Maria Griffin
Spare and Found Parts, Sarah Maria Griffin
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Spare and Found Parts

Author: Sarah Maria Griffin

Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2016


Synopsis

Nell Crane has never held a boy’s hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts—an arm, a leg, an eye—Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she’s the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is expected to contribute to the society’s good . . . but how can Nell live up to her father’s revolutionary ideas when she has none of her own? Then she finds a lost mannequin’s hand while salvaging on the beach, and inspiration strikes. Can Nell build her own companion in a world that fears advanced technology? The deeper she sinks into this plan, the more she learns about her city—and her father, who is hiding secret experiments of his own. Sarah Maria Griffin’s haunting literary debut will entrance fans of Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking series, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker, and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

About Sarah Maria Griffin

Sarah Maria Griffin lives in Dublin, Ireland, in a small red brick house by the sea, with her husband and cat. She writes about monsters, growing up, and everything those two things have in common. This is her first novel. You can visit her at www.sarahgriff.com. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by jessica

i thought this sounded really interesting - i mean, who wouldnt want to build themselves the perfect boyfriend!? but i found the story struggled to keep my attention in some parts and the plot didnt really strike me as memorable. also, the random switching of tenses throughout the book didnt really......more

Goodreads review by Chiara

A copy of this novel was provided by HarperCollins for review via Edelweiss. There were four pleasantly surprising things about Spare and Found Parts: 1) The main character, Nell, is bi. The word isn’t used on the page, but Nell talks about guys and girls in terms of romance (and her best friend does,......more