Secluded in Little Cam, the research facility where she was created, Pia has never seen the outside world and she has never met anyone her age. She is beautiful, smart, athletic, and she is immortal.
It’s not just about the story itself, but it’s how Origin made me think about the issues raised throughout the story. But sometimes, you get a piece of chocolate with something surprising inside, and it’s so delicious you wish you could have more. I’m not saying just chocolate is bad, I love chocolate.
It’s true, isn’t it? Sometimes you get chocolates with fruits, nuts, coconuts, and sometimes you get chocolates with no fillings.
You never know what you’re going to get,” so says Forrest Gump’s mother. Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia’s origin―a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home―and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.įree in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. Origin is a beautifully told, electric new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever.Published: September 4th, 2012 by Razorbill As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia’s origin-a truth with nothing less than deadly consequences that will change their lives forever. Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work.įor as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. She has been bred for no other purpose, genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She is meant to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death.
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