num_pages: 432
description: In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson a human lives there too. They're a family hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled HAP he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission or worse reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?Author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
language: English
title: In the Lives of Puppets
publisher: Tor Books