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R. Voss, Daniel

 
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Synopsis

Two hundred million entered. Only one becomes a person.

Gary is not the fastest. He is not the strongest. He has a bent tail that should have ended his race in the first ten minutes. But Gary is very good at one thing: not quitting.

Narrated with the deadpan authority of a nature documentary — and overseen, with tremendous unearned confidence, by the fictional Bureau of Reproductive Logistics — One in Two Hundred Million follows Gary and his ragged little convoy through one ordinary night inside one ordinary body. Ferguson counts the odds because he can't stop himself. Ace, the gleaming frontrunner, performs a strength he doesn't feel. Nova asks the question nobody wants answered. And nearly all of them will be gone before the finish line closes.

It starts as a comedy. It does not end as one.

For readers who love:

  • Big-hearted, high-concept novels you can't stop telling people about
  • An underdog hero and an ensemble cast you'll end up grieving for
  • Laugh-out-loud humor that turns, without warning, into something true
  • An ending that changes how you see everything that came before it

You'll pick it up expecting a joke about sperm. You'll put it down thinking about how you, specifically, got to be here at all.

Start reading the most improbable race in the world.

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