<p><b>From<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author TJ Klune, <i>In the Lives of Puppets</i> is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe.
