The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown

by Carrie Vaughn

https://www.tor.com/2016/12/21/the-thing-about-growing-up-in-jokertown/NookISBN-13:9780765392442http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-thing-about-growing-up-in-jokertown-carrie-vaughn/1125286540?ean=9780765392442

Kindle

ASIN: B01MYWGWDV

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The human side of things is brought to bear in this story. The actual look of the children of the Taxis-a virus how their world is changed because of the strange development of the virus, yet they long for the same things as all teenagers.

Having the ability to run like a human greyhound has its benefits and its negatives. Sure she can out run anyone else. Yet the school rules make it so she can not compete against the Nat children. Its not her sole disadvantage but its what she accepts as part of growing up. Growing up as the miracle baby the only child of her joker parents to survive she has been sheltered and adored by her family. The outside world is not as strange or fearful for her as it is to any teenager struggling to find their way in life. She has friends that she can depend on, and the most exciting thing is to go out of the neighborhood and explore the other places like any teenager. This is a great story to add to the accumulative literature of the Wild Cards mosaic novels.