![]() Matt questions himself and the world around him throughout the book. ![]() But Matt is treated by others as an animal, they do not see how anything grown in a cow can be human and some of the treatment he endured really pissed me off, never mind the fact that his genetic make-up is identical to El Patron's. They are both intelligent and talented individuals, Matt acknowledges multiple times how alike the two people are. On one hand, Matt knows he is evil and corrupt - he plants chips in people's heads to make them obey his orders without question - but Matt also knows that El Patron is himself. Matt's relationship with El Patron is conflicted. The man who shares his DNA is El Patron, the extremely rich head of a huge opium empire and a man with the power to deliver to himself a longer than usual life with the help of clones. In The House of the Scorpion we are immediately introduced to a boy called Matt who is a clone that was grown in a cow and harvested. Plus, is it that hard to do a little research on a country's culture, traditions and legends (etc.)? There's a whole world out there that I'm not in a position to explore right now so I like to pretend I'm there by visiting other countries in books. I suppose one of the quickest ways to mess up your novel is to write about places and things you don't have a clue about, but I still really wish more authors would try to use different settings. I loved the setting - Mexico - and it was obvious to me that the author was very familiar with Mexican culture and legends, she incorporates a lot of this into the story. If you liked Unwind, then you should also like this. Perhaps I am way more influenced by title and cover than I like to admit - though there's nothing actually wrong with either, I still feel like this doesn't scream at me "awesome dystopian setting + interesting questions about what it means to be human!!". ![]() so why on earth have I been wasting my time with every other poorly-constructed dystopian world instead of reading this? I have absolutely no excuse: I own a copy, it's won practically every award going, and all my reviewer friends have been constantly singing its praises. This book has been on my goodreads shelf since pretty much the beginning of time. ![]() Her books have been translated into 26 languages. She is the author of nine novels, three picture books and a number of short stories. Nancy's honors include the National Book Award for The House of the Scorpion and Newbery Honors for The Ear, the Eye and The Arm, A Girl Named Disaster and The House of the Scorpion. They have a son, Daniel, who is in the U.S. This is the setting for The Lord of Opium. Harold and Nancy now live in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona on a major drug route for the Sinaloa Cartel. ![]() Part of the time she spent in the capital, Harare, and was introduced to her soon-to-be husband by his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend. Next she was hired to help control tsetse fly in the dense bush on the banks of the Zambezi in Zimbabwe. She spent more than a year on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, monitoring water weeds. Nancy eventually got to Africa on a legal ship. She and a friend tried to hitchhike by boat but the ship they'd selected turned out to be stolen and was boarded by the Coast Guard just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Restless, again, she decided to visit Africa. When she returned, she moved into a commune in Berkeley, sold newspapers on the street for a while, then got a job in the Entomology department at UC Berkeley and also took courses in Chemistry there. Instead of taking a regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and was sent to India (1963-1965). She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, earning her BA in 1963. She also found time to hang out in the old state prison and the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. Nancy was born in 1941 in Phoenix and grew up in a hotel on the Arizona-Mexico border where she worked the switchboard at the age of nine. ![]()
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