Age Group: Adults

Description:

In the Lives of Puppets is a New York Times bestselling standalone fantasy from TJ Klune — a wholly original, bittersweet retelling of Pinocchio set in a richly imagined post-human world. Deep in a peculiar forest, a young man named Victor Lawson lives in a treehouse with his found family: Gio, his warm and inventive android father; Nurse Ratched, a pleasantly sadistic medical robot; and Rambo, a small vacuum cleaner desperately in need of love. Their hidden, peaceful life unravels the day Vic repairs a salvaged android called Hap, unwittingly exposing the family to dangers from Gio's shadowy past. When Gio is captured and taken to the ominous City of Electric Dreams, Victor and his misfit companions must cross a strange and treacherous world to bring him home. Described as "Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E." Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction. Recommended for adult readers.