| Description |
x, 388 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease -- dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS) -- vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn't change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Tennessee -- Fiction.
|
|
Syndromes -- Fiction.
|
| ISBN |
9780345501172 paperback |
|
0345501179 paperback |
|
