Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. Dick Award, comes a resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we loveĪ few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. This thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders."This thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders.” – Publishers Weekly starred reviewįrom the author of Road Out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K.
“A harrowing vision of the future, and at its center is the tug-of-war between what is right and what is necessary to survive. Told in shifting perspectives, Trashlands is a beautifully drawn and wildly imaginative tale of a parent’s journey, a story of community and humanity in a changed world. But is it possible to choose a future for herself? When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club’s violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.Īmid the polluted landscape, Coral works desperately to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. A resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we loveĪ few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides.
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