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DATA BABY - SUSANNAH BRESLIN GEBUNDEN

What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the
story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler  her
parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California 
Berkeley  where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an
unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort
will grow up to be. Decades later  trapped in what she feels is an abusive marriage and
battling breast cancer  she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped her
identity and life choices. Already a successful journalist  she makes her own curious history
the subject of her next investigation. From experiment rooms with one-way mirrors  to
children's puzzles with no solutions  to condemned basement laboratories  her life-changing
journey uncovers the long-buried secrets hidden behind the renowned study. The question at the
gnarled heart of her quest: Did the study know her better than she knew herself? At once
bravely honest and sharply witty  Data Baby is a compelling and provocative account of a
woman's quest to find her true self  and an unblinking exploration of why we turn out as we do.
Few people in all of history have been studied from such a young age and for as long as
Susannah Breslin  but the message of her book is universal. In an era when so many of us are
looking to technology to tell us who to be  it's up to us to discover who we actually are--

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