Ship Breaker

Title: Ship Breaker

Author: Paolo Bacigalupi

Pages: 9 discs?

Genre: Fiction

Grade: B

Synopsis: In some strange future version of the United States, Nailer works on the Gulf Coast on a light crew stripping old oil tankers of their copper wiring. He and the rest of his crew must meet quota every day to earn the food and stay on the crew.  When Nailer, who lives with his alcoholic, abusive father finds a brand new and very expensive clipper ship he must decide whether or not to save the beautiful rich girl or to strip the ship of all its worth in order to become a rich man.

My Review: The premise for this book is very unique and was surprisingly interesting.  It takes a little while to understand the society and how it is different from the one that we live in, but I gathered that the book is set in some future time after global warming and rising seas have changed the world and the United States forever.