MARTians by Blythe Woolston
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date: October 13th 2015
Last
girl Zoë Zindleman, numerical ID 009-99-9999, has just been graduated. Early.
Her options: wait for her home to be foreclosed and stripped of anything
valuable now that AnnaMom has moved away, or move to the Warren, an abandoned
strip-mall-turned-refuge for other left-behinds—a safe place, and close to
AllMART, Zoë’s new employer, where “your smile is AllMART’s welcome mat.” Zoë
may be the last girl, but her name means “life,” and Zoë isn’t ready to
disappear into the AllMART abyss. Zoë wants to live.
MARTians is set in a world of exurban decay studded with big-box stores, where its inhabitants are numbed by shopping and the six o’clock “news.” MARTians may be the future, but it is frighteningly familiar.
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MARTians is set in a world of exurban decay studded with big-box stores, where its inhabitants are numbed by shopping and the six o’clock “news.” MARTians may be the future, but it is frighteningly familiar.
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What I learned
from this book: One day Walmart and K-Mart are going to rule our lives and it’s
totally going to SUCK. (Okay, so you changed the names to AllMART
and Q-Mart, but I see you, Blythe Woolston, I see you.) When I first picked up this book I hadn’t
exactly bothered to learn what it was about.
I, naturally, assumed it was about aliens from mars plus shopping carts. But no, there are no aliens here, just really creepy big-box store employees.
