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    Kiss Me, Stranger: An Illustrated Novel

    By Ron Tanner

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    Set in an unnamed country sometime in the past, present, or future, Kiss Me, Stranger is the story of one woman's attempts to keep her family together while a civil war rages around her.

    Penelope, her husband and her fourteen children live in a small war-torn country built atop a landfill. After her husband and eldest son are drafted by opposing factions in the war, Penelope and her remaining children, desolate and nearly starving, are forced to scavenge for scrap--comprised of discarded consumer goods such as computers, televisions and automobiles--in the bombed-out city. When the government scrap collector makes an unreasonable demand in already unreasonable circumstances, Penelope slaps him across the face, leading to her arrest. Her subsequent escape sends her family on a journey literally into the heart of the landfill, where they come face to face with the stupidity, destruction and at times, dark humor, of war and modern consumer society.

    Featuring over fifty illustrations by the author, Kiss Me, Stranger is a comical and tragic commentary on war, violence, and consumerism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIg Publishing
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781935439318
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      For starters, I like dystopian novels so much better than utopian novels. I lucked into this one as a free Kindle download, which I read almost entirely on my phone (I just got a Kindle last week and read part of it on there, but finished it on my phone). This was a great novel for the infrequent reading I do on my phone - mainly while I'm waiting and only when I've forgotten to bring the book I'm reading. With other books I've tried to read that way, I've found that I forget the characters or the plot, and that wasn't the case this time. This story is memorable. I loved the illustrations and the characters. The story mainly concerns a mother and her large family of children, who are funny in the way children who are not watched over constantly can be, going a little astray, but nothing disastrous. In the war-torn setting of this novel, there is much danger, but many of the societal norms are gone, so in some ways it seems like an easier world to live in.