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267 pp.
| Putnam
| May, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-0-399-17581-7$17.99
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4-6
In another world, people send their dead into a gaping hole in the ocean called the Drain. Twelve-year-old Alec and his orphaned thief friend Wren live on Edgeland, an island beside the Drain where funerals are the main industry. When a funeral-robbing scheme gone wrong sends Alec and Wren into the Drain, the pair--and readers--journey rather aimlessly through the dystopian fantasyland's purgatory.