An explosive, daring novel that suggests what might happen when a young girl is discovered to be the result of the experimental breeding of human and ape. Lucy, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a primatologist, a girl who has had only apes as playmates, is rescued from the jungles of the Congo during a civil war uprising and brought to live in the suburbs of Chicago. The stunning revelation of who--and what--she is sets in motion her fight for survival and for her very right to exist...