the adoration of jenna fox by mary e pearson

She never refers to the video girl as “me” always differentiating the loved, adored, girl in the vids as “Jenna”.

She watches the vids and she tries to grasp a connection with the girl on the screen, but cannot. Her grandmother Lily, however, remains in the background, uncomfortable and cold towards Jenna.Ī stranger in her own home and in her own skin, Jenna feels completely alone and lacking any sense of identity. Her parents encourage her to watch old video clips of herself, telling her that gradually her memories will start to come back. Her parents and grandmother have taken Jenna away from their home in Boston to a large, secluded home in California. Upon waking up, eighteen year-old Jenna is completely disoriented and cannot remember anything–not even who she is. In the not-too-distant future, Jenna Fox has been lying in a coma for a full year after a tragic Accident. More than the video clips they make me watch. More than the facts and statistics they fill my head with. Mary Pearson’s vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life.

She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name.

The adoration of jenna fox by mary e pearson