{"id":7569878909017,"title":"Devolution — Clenott '73","handle":"devolution-clenott-73","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Peter Clenott, Class of 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"What does it truly mean to be 'Human'?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChiku Flynn wasn't raised to be human. Born in the Congolese rainforest, she spends her first eleven years as part of an experiment. For her, the aboriginal-the primitive-is 'normal.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust after her eleventh birthday, Chiku witnesses the horrifying death of her mother, and her father sends her 'home' to the United States, to a normal teenager's life. But she can't adapt. She is the proverbial wild child—obstinate and defiant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen her father disappears, sixteen-year-old Chiku heads back to the primordial jungle, where she uncovers her own dark past and puts to use her greatest skill: she can communicate via sign language with the wild chimpanzees of Chimp Island.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut there is turmoil in the rainforest-civil war, environmental upheaval...and murder. The lives of the chimps and the safety of the people she loves depend upon one teenaged girl who refuses to be messed with—Chiku Flynn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-09T15:56:08-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-09T15:56:08-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Fiction"],"price":1599,"price_min":1599,"price_max":1599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1599,"compare_at_price_min":1599,"compare_at_price_max":1599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41132035670105,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA453-Clenott","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Devolution — Clenott '73","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1599,"weight":454,"compare_at_price":1599,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781927792148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba453-clenott-devol.jpg?v=1712692446"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba453-clenott-devol.jpg?v=1712692446","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Devolution by Peter Clenott","id":24971709644889,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba453-clenott-devol.jpg?v=1712692446"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba453-clenott-devol.jpg?v=1712692446","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBy Peter Clenott, Class of 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"What does it truly mean to be 'Human'?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChiku Flynn wasn't raised to be human. Born in the Congolese rainforest, she spends her first eleven years as part of an experiment. For her, the aboriginal-the primitive-is 'normal.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust after her eleventh birthday, Chiku witnesses the horrifying death of her mother, and her father sends her 'home' to the United States, to a normal teenager's life. But she can't adapt. She is the proverbial wild child—obstinate and defiant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen her father disappears, sixteen-year-old Chiku heads back to the primordial jungle, where she uncovers her own dark past and puts to use her greatest skill: she can communicate via sign language with the wild chimpanzees of Chimp Island.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut there is turmoil in the rainforest-civil war, environmental upheaval...and murder. The lives of the chimps and the safety of the people she loves depend upon one teenaged girl who refuses to be messed with—Chiku Flynn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}