![]() In spite of her pride at being “almost” a full scientist like the others, Pia has a dearth of curiosity she even calls the part of her that wants to see the outside “Wild Pia.” But if she had only known! For, once she gets in the open, she literary runs smack into Eio, a buff almost-eighteen-year-old member of the local native tribe, the Ai’oa. On the night Pia turns seventeen, a storm creates a small hole in the electrified fence around the compound, and Pia sneaks out. There is only one dissenting voice (at first) in the group: “Uncle” Antonio (Pia calls all of them either “Uncle” or “Aunt”) who always admonishes her: “Perfect is as perfect does, Pia.” Taught to be quite full of herself, it takes her a while to get the message. What the doctors actually mean is: you can’t die, and we want that too. Pia is told by everyone she is “perfect,” which Pia takes to mean: without fault. ![]() But a plan to make more is simmering on the back of their Bunsen Burners. So far they have made just one: almost-seventeen-year-old Pia. ![]() In this book, “Little Cambridge” or “Little Cam” is a secret laboratory hidden in the Amazon rainforest, where Mad Doctors seemingly fresh off a stint at Auschwitz are laboring to create immortal beings. ![]()
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