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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Fiction
Bacigalupi expands the dystopian future America of his Printz Award-winning Ship Breaker (rev. 7/10) in this companion novel about the further exploits of the half-man Tool. The setting has moved north along the East Coast to the Drowned Cities (a.k.a. the remnants of Washington DC), a bleaker flooded landscape than Ship Breaker's Orleans—a place where "city and jungle bled into one." The isolated, ruined region is a battleground for warring political and religious factions, with fighting spreading out to the suburbs where two refugee "war...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Bacigalupi expands the dystopian future America of <i>Ship Breaker</i> in this companion novel. A violent group of armed chil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
