Landscape With Invisible Hand
Candlewick Press · Paperback · April 9, 2019
“Practically every word reflects a prescient, bitingly precise critique of contemporary human folly, of economic and environmental inequities and absurdities.” — The Horn Book (starred review) Now a major motion picture When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth, though not an unwelcome one.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, uneasy read about art, economic inequality, and what survival can ask of a person.
- Themes
- Colonization, Art and truth, Economic and environmental inequity
- Genres
- Alien Contact for Teens, Satirical YA, YA Dystopian Fiction
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“Practically every word reflects a prescient, bitingly precise critique of contemporary human folly, of economic and environmental inequities and absurdities.” — The Horn Book (starred review) Now a major motion picture When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth, though not an unwelcome one.
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But with his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam has to get creative to survive. And soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want. National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.
Satire Under Pressure
A sharp, uneasy read about art, economic inequality, and what survival can ask of a person.
Come here for
- Biting satire aimed at contemporary folly
- Art and truth under the pressure of colonization
Expect
- A future Earth shaped by alien technology
- A tense question of what survival is worth
Where it sits
| YA Dystopian Fiction | 78% |
|---|---|
| Satirical YA | 76% |
| Alien Contact for Teens | 70% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Dystopian Fiction
- Satirical YA
- Alien Contact for Teens
- Authors
- M. T. Anderson
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- April 9, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Colonization · Art and truth · Economic and environmental inequity
- Reading lane
- YA Dystopian Fiction