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a fifteen-year-old with the cognitive faculties of a child

Metamorphosis Short Stories or of complicated plot arcsNicholas Mosley's Whitbread Award winning novel Hopeful Monsters dealt with the suggestion that if human nature could not be improved by scientific manipulation, perhaps a suitable environment or soil might be prepared into which an appropriate seed for change might fall. In Metamorphosis, a humanitarian worker and a journalist in a refugee camp in East Africa discover a newborn child who for some reason gives them the impression it might be just such