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195 pp.
| Penguin/Firebird |
October, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-14-240922-0$11.99
(4)
YA
In a futuristic celebrity-obsessed society, practical-minded misfit Jet accompanies her shallow family to "movie capital" Ollywood, where she and her faithful robot dog, Otis, are sucked into a bizarre fantasy dimension of failed B-movies and TV pilots. The plot and setting are innovative and the protagonists dryly sympathetic, but Lee too often puts metaphor and satire ahead of story.