The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How To Ruin Your Life In Seven Days

The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How To Ruin Your Life In Seven DaysHiggs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything his parents could have wanted. Everything they wanted for Higgs's older brother

As media messiah he ascends to the very top of the freak-show heap before finally and apocalyptically spiralling out of control

by way of drug syndicates in Canada and cyber criminals in Brazil

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and the fight for political freedom

Preeminent among those who have is John Howe

such as Amaretto-Butternut Squash Soup with Cinnamon Toast Croutons

A Harvard degree guarantees respect

But neither Zhenya nor Renko realize that Maya herself is being hunted

Another in Tangshan in 1976 catalysed the transformation of China into the world's second largest economy

the only thing they share is the moment of their death

including the highest literary honor - the Mao Dun Award

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