Glitch
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A dystopian novel about a protagonist who realizes her thought process makes her an outsider and puts her at odds with her secretly totalitarian government. She lives in a post-apocalyptic society in which each person has a mood and thought-censoring microchip inserted in their brains as an infant. As a result of a genetic experiment that her and her 'Glitch' comrades underwent, they are free from its influence, and therefore free of their government's overbearing authority. The Glitches make it their mission to take down the government- P.A.N.D.O.R.A- at all costs
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