![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club’s violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.Īmid the polluted landscape, Coral works to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has turned into, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. TRASHLANDSĪ few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. The “painful, thought-provoking apocalypse noir” novel by Ohio author Alison Stine. ![]()
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