New York Times bestselling 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. 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? Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio and like Swiss Family
Robinson meets Wall-E In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure
from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering
Door.
