Jenna Fox was in a car accident 18 months ago and has been in a coma since. She has awoken to a strange world where she does not remember her parents, her friends or most of her life. Her parents and maternal grandmother, Lily, have moved her to a small community in California while her father, founder of Fox BioSystems (the creator of BioGel), continues his work in Boston.
The text is a bit of a mystery in which the read can participate, where Jenna tries to figure out her past. She attends a small school where she meets Dane and Ethan, potential love interests, and a good friend, Allys, whose work is intertwined with the Federal Science Ethics Boards.
Jenna watches discs, seemingly like a DVD, to help her remember her life. The discs are chronologically organized around the years of her life. Her journey is like an amnesiac attempting to remember her former life.
But there is something strange about Jenna. Her life seems to be different after the accident. She feels like she never knew the girl in the videos. Her parents are secretive and cryptic. Will she find who she is and who she was? Who can she trust, her parents? Her distant grandmother?
The text deals with issues of humanity and identity, family and history. I found it very interesting, and I hope you will too!
http://www.whoisjennafox.com/
Published April 2008
ISBN # 978-0-8050-7668-4
