The author-illustrator of dystopian masterworks Tales from the Loop and The Labyrinth comes another darkly sumptuous narrative, as a woman and her toy robot set out across the western United States in a stolen car to find her missing brother.

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2019
Stranger Things meets On the Road in this hypnotic, lavishly illustrated novel.

Set in a post-apocalyptic 1997, The Electric State is the story of Michelle who, accompanied by her toy robot Skip, sets out across the western United States in a stolen car to find her missing brother. Told in achingly melancholy, spare prose and featuring almost a hundred gorgeous, full-colour illustrations, The Electric State is a novel like no other.