Sci-Fi & Speculative

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Through poignant diary entries, Charlie Gordon chronicles his transformation from intellectually disabled bakery worker to genius and back again, mirroring the fate of Algernon, the lab mouse who underwent the same experimental procedure. A devastating exploration of intelligence, humanity, and what we lose when we gain everything we think we want.

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