Wouldn't that be awesome? (No, Connie thinks. Maybe we'll just cut out part of her brain instead, the doctors say. They put the implant in her brain… but she keeps going unconscious and the doctors get freaked out, so they take the implant out. While she does get away for a couple of days, she's recaptured. Connie doesn't want nefarious doctors messing with her brain (who would?), especially when she sees what happens to other folks who are experimented on. Redding wants to put an implant in her brain that is supposed to allow the doctors to turn off her violent impulses. In the asylum, Connie is selected for a fancy experiment the nefarious Dr. Connie's been committed before, so the hospital believes Geraldo (and Dolly who backs him up because Dolly is kind of an awful mess). Connie busts Geraldo's nose Geraldo knocks her out. So what happens for certain? Consuela Ramos (Connie) gets in a fight with her niece Dolly's pimp, Geraldo, when Geraldo tries to convince Dolly to have an illegal abortion. And then other parts are all about fantastical, bizarre things like people being born out of tubes, talking to cats, and dodging cyborg assassins.Īre you supposed to believe in the turkey and the cyborgs? The pettiness and the talking cats? Or only turkey and no cyborgs? (Surely not only cyborgs and no turkey?) The book never lets you know for sure, because it's a jerk like that. Parts of Woman on the Edge of Time are all about realistic, mundane things like people being petty and families bickering over Thanksgiving turkey.
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