Earth Girl
Janet Edwards
Fiction Ed967e
2788.
Only the handicapped live on Earth. Eighteen-year-old Jarra is
among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that
cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her
life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can't travel to other
worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they
make. She's an "ape," a "throwback," but this is one ape girl who won't
give in.
Jarra makes up a fake military background for herself
and joins a class of norms who are on Earth for a year of practical
history studies excavating the dangerous ruins of the old cities. She
wants to see their faces when they find out they've been fooled into
thinking an ape girl was a norm. She isn't expecting to make friends
with the enemy, to risk her life to save norms, or to fall in love.
(From publisher.)
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