JCPL Teens

The Drowned Cities is the companion book to Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi.  This book takes off with a bang and doesn’t stop until the last page.  Mahlia is an outcast in her small rural village where she assists the local doctor.  When she helps the injured Tool, a creature that is a genetic amalgamation of human and dangerous animal genetics, she sets in motion a chain of events that not only impact the entire village but also change the course of her life and that of her fellow orphan Mouse.  In this post-apocalyptic novel the United States is fractioned into different states, global warming has changed the landscape and bands of soldier boys fight over the territory that used to be Washington D.C..  When Mouse is capture by a band of soldier boys Mahlia recruits Tool to help her in the dangerous rescue attempt. Beyond being a non-stop adventure novel Drowned Cities questions what is human nature and if it is inevitable that we will always descend into war and chaos.

This book comes out in May so get on the hold list today!