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Nell Crane has never held a boy€s hand. 

In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts€"an arm, a leg, an eye€"Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she€s the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is expected to contribute to the society€s good . . . but how can Nell live up to her father€s revolutionary ideas when she has none of her own? 

Then she finds a lost mannequin€s hand while salvaging on the beach, and inspiration strikes. Can Nell build her own companion in a world that fears advanced technology? The deeper she sinks into this plan, the more she learns about her city€"and her father, who is hiding secret experiments of his own. 

Sarah Maria Griffin€s haunting literary debut will entrance fans of Patrick Ness€s Chaos Walking series, Paolo Bacigalupi€s Ship Breaker, and Emily St. John Mandel€s Station Eleven.