On a research trip toWest Africa, Dr. Hugo Archibald of the Boston Museum of Natural Historyencounters an orphaned baby chimpanzee. Archibald decides to bring theape, whom he names Jennie, back to Boston and raise her alongside hisown two young children as a kind of scientific experiment.Jenniecaptures the hearts of everyone she encounters. She believes herself tobe a human being. She does almost everything a human child can, fromriding a tricycle to fighting over the television with her siblings tocommunicating in American Sign Language.Told from shifting points ofview of those closest to Jennie, this heartwarming and bittersweetnovel forces us to take a closer look at the species that shares 98percent of our DNA and ask ourselves the question: What does it reallymean to be human?Douglas Preston'sJennie,based on the realstory of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George, is the celebratednovel that was made into the award-winning Disney television filmThe Jennie Project. It was translated into many languages and became a worldwide bestseller.