Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker
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American science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi writes an amazing novel called Ship Breaker. living in Colorado Paolo has won 5 awards. It takes place on a Gulf Coast where all the polar ice caps have been melted and New Orleans has sunken. Living on a gulf coast, humanity has learned to take survival with them. Nailer is a 15 year old boy who works for a light crew. He now lives with his alcoholic dad Richard Lopez because his mom died when he was little. Nailer and Pima(his close friend) find a girl named Nita in a shipwreck, and decides to help her get back home.
In a storm Nailer and Pima helps Nita daughter of a wealthy merchant get to her father, and she thinks that a ship called Dauntless is still loyal to her father. Unfortunately,