Feed

#227
Title: Feed
Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick
Year: 2004
320 pages

Dystopian cyberpunk for teens. This is the first of Anderson's I've read and it disposes me to read more (which is good, since I bought it in order to see if I wanted to take on his The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party). Anderson captures teenspeak, sometimes excruciatingly so, and teen preoccupations. This is a cautionary tale about capitalism, consumerism, the environment, and technology. It is not a typical teen novel and its ending is also atypical in that it does not neatly wrap up the novel's events or emotions.

The used copy I bought had someone's air ticket stub stuck to the back cover with gum, which seemed apropos.