Arky Yarbro did not speak until he was four years old. And then he spoke a Spanish sounding word. He was irregular in school performance – sometimes brilliant, sometimes a dullard. He knows that his ‘father’ is not his biological father. And he startles his mother with questions and information about his real father. He sees visions and he ‘just ‘knows things’, all passed on by his father speaking to him. He is good at doing several things. For all this he is treated as crazy. He has a shrink, Claire Vanderhope, whom he detests.
At school he meets Bonnie Rideup, who has some of his talents including playing a guitar with no training. Bonne also makes socks; she makes him three pairs, and they go to his Prom before her parents send her away to another place.
Arky’s father, Yarbro, was a womanizer, leaving a woman ‘in every port’ pregnant. Arky ekes out information from Lloyd’s wives and finds his siblings: all, like himself, having extraordinary skills and memory capabilities: Maya; Gaylen; Kyle Sanchez and his daughter Caitlin. Maya becomes pregnant for Arky, the first between two “mutants” as they call themselves. They soon extend contact with other mutants, and pursued by the FBI and the shrink. They set out to find his father. Things get exciting as they Arky and Maya find Lloyd as the baby is about to be born. Lloyd must leave because the Feds have a felony charge against him and are nearby. Arky has to deliver the baby, all of twelve pounds. Then they begin a trek to avoid the FBI and Vanderhope, but have to be separated in doing so.
There are justifications for the pursuits; The FBI wants to arrest Lloyd on felony and polygamy charges; Claire and her CEO sees “human perfectibility” and money if they could control the DNA of the group. Lloyd justifies his womanizing as God’s instructions to help Him to create a new species. And in the end,. Arky thinks about Bonnie Rideup, who has done pretty well with her stitching and footwear skills, and whom he thinks may be one of them.
This is an interestingly entertaining book, suifficiently so to warrant one sitting. The core idea is fascinating, and in a way, frightening – people who could do things without training, have full recall, and be able to see things because of DNA handed to them from their parents. The downside is thinking what would happen if the means get in to hands of the Government, greedy corporate CEOs, or fame-seeking scientists. And so in the end, the group must identify their members, and protect their special DNA.
The book is quite well written in easy-to-read English. Highly recommended.
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