Woebegones Warehouse of Words
- Publisher : Hachette India
- Publishing year : July 2024
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9789388322744
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
Six desperate Words. Two fearless Speakers. One audacious quest to reclaim the truth, if such a thing can still be ...
Six desperate Words.
Two fearless Speakers.
One audacious quest to reclaim the truth,
if such a thing can still be found.
In a world where you must pay a price to speak, Speakers have to buy words to use them. At the click of a button, the flesh-and-ink Words at a warehouse are boxed and shipped to stay alive.
Everything changes when fifteen-year-olds Asha and Zeb break the rules and graffiti a wall. They collide head-on with the tyrannical Word Bloc and its sinister leader Gunther Glib. For him, power is about controlling what can be said, even if it means destroying the Words and forever silencing their Speakers.
Payal Kapadia lives in Mumbai and is the author of the award-winning debut novella Wisha Wozzariter, which won the 2013 Crossword Book Award for Children's writing, and the horridly entertaining boarding school series Horrid High.