It takes the average reader 6 hours and 20 minutes to read The Renaissance Gene by Michael D. Stern
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Who knows where babies come from? Or where they go... In 1997, lapsed Catholic medical student Daniel Lahey falls mortally ill after scrubbing on an abortion. Tormented by guilt, he makes a high-tech bargain with God. Thirty years later, Lahey is Chief of Ob/Gyn at the prestigious Homeland Hospital in Baltimore, when a brilliant African-American law student is devastated to learn that he has the wrong blood type, and an 8-year-old girl at a Catholic children's home develops a strange new type of leukemia. When the oncologist son of a Hasidic Rebbe teams up with a Catholic social worker to search for the girl's birth family, they find themselves being stalked by Renaissance, an unholy corporate alliance between God and greed, that is not above murder and kidnapping. So begins a year of miracles and tragedies, when the secrets hidden in plain sight for three decades will change everything. Set in a near future when players in today's "culture wars" have traded roles, this novel is a fast-paced thriller that attacks headline ethical issues: When does human life begin? Who has the right to "play God"? What are the meanings of family and race in a diverse and technological age? Are human beings again becoming a commodity?
The Renaissance Gene by Michael D. Stern is 380 pages long, and a total of 95,000 words.
This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 39 minutes to read The Renaissance Gene aloud.
The Renaissance Gene is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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