**Named a Best Book of 2020 by Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, The New Yorker, and Kirkus** **Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language,** *Want* **is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love.** Elizabe
Want
โ Scribed by Cindy Pon
- Publisher
- Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Series
- Want 1
- Edition
- First Simon Pulse hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Taipei (Taiwan), Taiwan,Taiwan., Taiwan--Taipei.
- ISBN
- 1481489240
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โฆ Synopsis
From critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon comes an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller, set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, about a group of teens who risk everything to save their city.
Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits, protecting them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Frustrated by his city's corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost.
With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary.
Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more...
โฆ Subjects
Taiwan -- Taipei
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