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Marianna Baer's The Inconceivable Life of Quinn is a compelling YA story with a magical-realism twist about a girl whose pregnancy shocks everyone . . . most of all, her. Quinn Cutler is sixteen, the daughter of a candidate for congress in Brooklyn, and a student at a private school in Park Slope. She's also pregnant, a situation made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of actually having sex. Scared and confused, Quinn struggles to piece together what might have happened: an unlikely accident while she and her boyfriend were fooling around? A rape that she's repressing from trauma? Before she's had any revelations, the situation becomes public, putting her most intimate life up for scrutiny and ridicule, and jeopardizing her father's political career. Religious fanatics begin gathering at the Cutlers' house, believing she's pregnant with the next Messiah.