In a not-so-distant future, humans are divided into "needed" people — parents, schoolteachers, nurses — and "dispensable" people, with no one to take care of. These dispensable people are taken away at a not-so-ripe old age (50 for ladies and 60 for gents) to live in a Unit, where they live wonderful lives of comfort and ease, with no need to earn money or cook for themselves or do anything at all that they don't want to. Well, except for one thing – they are required to donate their organs on a regular basis for the benefit of the needed people. But then Dorrit, who didn't try terribly hard to become needed and is rather enjoying her time in the Unit, becomes pregnant, which causes more than a few problems both in the Unit and in Dorrit's life. And boy, do things get interesting from there.
This story is that scary kind of futuristic story that could all too easily become our real future. In fact, the author does a great job of making this future sound completely reasonable and the system of organ donation sound like a really smart idea. If you need a reason to question your own moral and ethical beliefs, check this book out.
--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library
Find The Unit in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.
This story is that scary kind of futuristic story that could all too easily become our real future. In fact, the author does a great job of making this future sound completely reasonable and the system of organ donation sound like a really smart idea. If you need a reason to question your own moral and ethical beliefs, check this book out.
--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library
Find The Unit in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.