Michael Swartz
Author-Scientist
Debut Novel: SPLIT
Published by Koehler Books
Publish Date: August 31, 2025
ISBN 979-8-88824-816-4
"It's who we are."
That's what Ethan Rivers has been told by his mother since he was a small child. It's her answer to why there's not enough money for a new couch, why his father gets angry, and why Ethan has two different colored eyes.
But there is a scientific reason Ethan has two different colored eyes. Ethan learns that he is a chimera, the real but rare in-utero fusion of fraternal twins into a single child; but he is Split. The traits on his left side resemble his father, and the traits on the right side resemble his mother. When Ethan's father becomes violent, Ethan wonders whose traits and which side will be responsible for the person he will become.
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