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OnyxLycan
Since: Nov, 2013
29th Sep, 2022 01:05:12 PM
It has to be Un Wind by Neal Shusterman. The premise of the world is that undesirables are "unwound" to reuse their parts.Neal Shusterman was a great author at aiming towards a younger audience but dealing with bigger topics.
Edited by OnyxLycan
I haven't read this myself but I saw a post on tumblr where someone asked "did anyone else read a book as a kid where they like dissected a kid for his organs and he was aware the whole time, until they like took his brain and he couldn't physically be aware anymore? like? unraveled or something? unwound? whatever"
So yeah now I'm curious; is anyone else familiar with this particular story? Apparently the title is something close to "unraveled" or "unwound". They said they read it as a kid but that doesn't strictly mean it was from a kid's book.