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Rachel in Love Kindle Edition

by Pat Murphy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 30 ratings

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Nebula AwardWinner, 1987
Locus AwardWinner, 1988

Winner of the 1987 Nebula Award!

Rachel has the mind of a teenage girl, but the body and the innocent heart of a young chimp. Sometimes when she looks at her gnarled brown fingers, they seem alien, wrong, out of place. She remembers having small, pale, delicate hands with painted fingernails. Memories lie upon memories, layers upon layers, like the sedimentary rocks of the desert buttes.

Aaron Jacobs, the man Rachel calls father, was a neurologist who discovered how to capture the electrical pattern of a living brain’s thoughts and memories. When his daughter died unexpectedly, the grieving father imposed the electrical pattern of the girl’s brain on a young chimp, creating Rachel, a chimp he recognizes as his daughter.

Rachel knows that she is a real girl – but when Aaron Jacobs dies, she must make her way in a world that treats her as nothing but an animal.

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31 pages
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January 10, 2013
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B06ZUR6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Untreed Reads Publishing (January 10, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 10, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 120 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 31 pages

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Dogreach

Beautiful

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2015

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One of the best written stories I've ever read, science fiction or otherwise.

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Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2016

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Rachel thinks like a girl, but is simian. She signs to communicate and in the short space of the book goes from happy slightly spoiled teenager to an escaped runaway trying to return home. Definitely a worthwhile read and reflection on what makes a human.

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022

A very poignant story that tugs gently but persistently at your heartstrings. I was completely in love with Rachel, the innocent, intelligent young chimp with the imprint of a human girl's mind, trying to balance her two sets of memories and experiences in a world that starts out cold.

Perhaps the way she transcends her human/animal challenges come from the evolutionary relationship between the two species, but perhaps it's also due to a capacity for curiosity and compassion inherent in humans/animals in general... and maybe the line between the two was not all that clear anyway to begin with, and both deserve the same kindness and respect. Thankfully, despite the callous scientists who keep Rachel under lock and key for most of the story, there is enough kindness in the world that she finally regains her freedom while finding her identity along the way. I love how unique yet universal this story is in its themes - it will have an enduring place in my heart.

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OpenBookSociety dot com

A Good Read!

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2013

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I remember, very blurry, as a child watching a movie where chimps were being exposed to radiation through top secret experiments. At the end, they are saved by two human friends who help them escape by using a military plane. And, for those who know what Fullmetal Alchemist is, I'm sure you remember an emotional episode where Ed and Alphonse come across a chimera that was once a little girl they had met before. All of these, even more reason to read this. Rachel in Love by author Pat Murphy is a story whose plot goes somewhat along those lines, revealing an amazing little adventure which I can't describe with the proper words how good it was to read.

This is one of those stories that deserve a happy ending after all the difficulties the characters go through and for a moment I was afraid that the author wouldn't give her leading role one. Throughout these few pages, we feel sympathy for Rachel who is taken away from what she has come to know as her home, into a world of humans that don't seem to understand her plea that she is a real girl like them.

I became very fond of this story, not just because of the author playing with the idea of working with the brain and its memories, but also because of the transformation of Rachel's personality of a child watching movies and reading bedtime stories to a mature female embracing the cruel reality of the world.

Among those bad moments, the author also gives Rachel happy ones that for a moment, in my opinion, make the reader think that she will be driven away from her goal, when she becomes friends with the night janitor by communicating with ASL you see her get used to the secret comfortable life of a chimp at a lab at night, giving the impression that she wants to stay there after all.

But, where do we find the "love" in Rachel in Love? Everywhere if you read well The author brings back the theory of the brain and its memories making me remember that I once heard that smells activate memories. After being so much with the janitor, Rachel mentions that he reminds her of her father, of tobacco and whiskey, a reason why she later feels attracted to him. While Johnson, a male chimp, falls for the new girl just to be ignored.

My favorite part of this little chimp adventure, was definitely the ending, I couldn't have asked for a better one. This is where you realize the maturity Rachel has come to acknowledge, finally leaving behind the teenage girl and both chimp and human, growing up.

If you're in the mood for something refreshing and full of love, in its many ways, then this is the book for you. And if not, it won't hurt you to give it a try. With a story as amazing as this, it won't even take you less than an hour to enjoy a good read.

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David Cohan

Another Great Story by Pat Murphy

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013

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An engaging story. You really have to keep careful track...read it twice and it is even better. One is left wanting to know more.

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Zombimomi

powerful coming of age story

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2013

This is a very beautiful and powerfully written coming of age story. At times I forgot I was reading about a chimpanzee and not a teenage girl. The emotions evoked through the writing left me speechless and wanting more.
The fact that we are seeing everything through the eyes of young Rachel; as she experiences the consciousness of a teenage girl in her chimp body; then the death of her creator father, who has raised her, we watch as she experiences first love and has to find her way through all the changes thrust upon her; gives the story the unique perspective that it needs to draw you and keep you in Rachel's world.
This is an amazing story that in a way reminded me of a very soft, feminine and, of course, chimp-view version of Micheal Crichton's "Next".

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