Feed
“The century’s most relevant dystopia … a contemporary classic …” — Wired Magazine
Candlewick Press (2002)
ISBN: 9780763617264
Awards
National Book Award Finalist ● Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner ● New York Times Notable Books of the Year ● TIME Magazine’s Best 100 YA Books of All Time ● NPR’s 100 Best YA Novels ● Oprah’s 2012 Kids Reading List ● Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Honor Book ● YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Selection ● YALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound, Selection ● Indies Choice Award, Most Engaging Author Honor ● Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens ● Book Sense 76 Top 10 Picks ● Riverbank Review Children’s Books of Distinction ● Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books - Bulletin Blue Ribbons ● Horn Book Fanfare ● Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Books of the Year ● School Library Journal’s Top 100 Must-Have YA Books” ● Junior Library Guild Selection ● Tennessee State Book Award Finalist
In a future world where internet connections feed directly into the consumer’s brain, thought is supplemented by advertising banners, and language has gone into a steep decline, a little love story unfolds. Titus, an average kid on a weekend trip to the moon, meets Violet, a brainy girl who has decided to try to fight the feed. Assaulted by a hacker who interrupts their connection, they struggle to understand what has happened to them – and to everyone around them.
In his National Book Award Finalist Feed, M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world – and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers for decades with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
Reviews
“Funny, serious, sad, superbly realized.” — Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy)
“Surely one of the most prescient novels of the last 20 years.” — Lev Grossman (The Magicians)
“The century’s most relevant dystopia … a contemporary classic …” — Wired Magazine
“Subversive, vigorously conceived, painfully situated at the juncture where funny crosses into tragic, FEED demonstrates that young-adult novels are alive and well and able to deliver a jolt.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Merciless and very clever.” — The New Yorker
"This dystopic vision is dark but quite believable. Sad and strong and scary." — Chicago Tribune
"As with the best futuristic fiction, it's scary how little needs to be exaggerated." — Newsday
"Chillingly satirical. . . . A terrific choice for both teen and adult book discussion groups." — NPR Morning Edition
“It's not easy for an author of books for young readers to get attention, but Boston's M. T. Anderson has been making waves recently with his eerie futuristic novel, Feed.” — Boston Globe
“It's exhilarating to decipher Anderson's futuristic adolescent slang, but his story is a serious one. He has an uncanny gift for depicting how teenagers see the world.” — BookPage
“Wickedly funny and thought provoking … written in a slang so hip it is spoken only by the characters in this book. Teens will want to read it at least twice.” — Miami Herald
“A darkly comic satire that can be read as a promise or a warning.” — Detroit Free Press
“The scariest thing of all is its unnerving plausibility.” — Raleigh News and Observer
★ “This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate- and media-dominated culture.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
★ “Satire at its finest.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “Brilliant ... Relentlessly funny . . .” — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
★ “M.T. Anderson has created the perfect device for an ingenious satire of corporate America and our present-day value system...Like those in a funhouse mirror, the reflections the novel shows us may be ugly and distorted, but they are undeniably ourselves.” — Horn Book, starred review
“A gripping, intriguing, and unique cautionary novel…” — School Library Journal
“Both hilarious and disturbing.” — Booklist Editor’s Choice
“Many teens will feel a haunting familiarity about this future universe.” — Booklist