Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson, parents of Stella, a genetically-enhanced child born as a result of mutations in the human genome caused by the SHEVA virus, lose the struggle to keep their daughter safe from a repressive government that wants to control the virus children by isolating them from the general population.
year: 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: viruses, fiction, children, social control, parent and child, mutation (biology), virginia, fiction