{"id":40820,"date":"2016-07-29T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40820"},"modified":"2017-10-18T19:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:19:55","slug":"jessica-chiarella-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/jessica-chiarella-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"And Again by Jessica Chiarella [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40702\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/04\/And-Again-by-Jessica-Chiarella-on-BookDragon-via-LJ-537x800.jpg\" alt=\"And Again by Jessica Chiarella on BookDragon via LJ\" width=\"537\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/04\/And-Again-by-Jessica-Chiarella-on-BookDragon-via-LJ-537x800.jpg 537w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/04\/And-Again-by-Jessica-Chiarella-on-BookDragon-via-LJ.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/>Gifted artist Hannah was supposed to die of lung cancer, Congressman-for-sale David of brain cancer, has-been actor Connie of AIDS, and housewife and mother Linda trapped by immobility forever. Yet this quartet comprise the first SUBlife cases, and some of their brains \u2013 the parts where memories are housed \u2013 are transplanted into genetically perfected new versions of their failing bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Given a second chance, each must relearn his or her identity, repeating, modifying, discarding, and inventing a future none would ever have thought possible. Returning to relationships with partners, family, and friends as healthy individuals proves to be a daunting, even unimaginable, challenge.<\/p>\n<p>As intriguing as the premise is \u2013what determines identity, who gets to live, can science beat death, and so much more \u2013 debut novelist Chiarella\u2019s execution devolves too quickly into embarrassingly predictable antics:\u00a0bed-hopping, family dysfunction, miscommunication, all with a seemingly limitless supply of tedious self-absorption \u2026 times four. Even the interpretations by veteran narrators Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross, and Corey Brill fail to disguise the overwrought drama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Readers in search of more substantive hybrid fare might consider dusting off Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/never-let-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro\/\"><em>Never Let Me Go<\/em><\/a> or Fay Weldon\u2019s <em>The Cloning of Joanna May<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2016\/07\/media\/audio\/audiobooks-from-barton-bauer-carpenter-chiarella-jacobson-pope-francis-spinella-xpress-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, July 29, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gifted artist Hannah was supposed to die of lung cancer, Congressman-for-sale David of brain cancer, has-been actor Connie of AIDS, and housewife and mother Linda trapped by immobility forever. 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