The Children's Hospital
By Chris Adrian
2006
First Published
3.57
Average Rating
624
Number of Pages
A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.
Avg Rating
3.57
Number of Ratings
2,970
5 STARS
26%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
24%
2 STARS
12%
1 STARS
7%
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Author
Chris Adrian
Author · 8 books
Chris Adrian was born in Washington D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he attended Harvard Divinity School, and is currently a pediatric fellow at UCSF. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. In 2010, he was chosen as one of the 20 best writers under 40 by The New Yorker.
