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. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. The SynopsisĪ 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. All opinions are my own.Ī mother struggling to save enough money to rescue her child finds an opportunity to change her and her child’s life through her art in the sci-fi dystopian thriller, “Trashlands” by author Alison Stine. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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