![]() ![]() ![]() On the way out, Nailer is impaled by a rusty piece of metal. Luckily, Nailer is able to escape the oil and washes up on the beach. Sloth, another member of the light crew, finds Nailer in the oil pocket, but decides to leave him to die because she wants Nailer's job and she wants to sneak the oil out of the ship and sell it. While gathering copper wires, Nailer falls through the duct and lands in a deep pool of oil. ![]() As he crawls through the darkness looking for scavenge to make quota, he dreams of traveling through the bright blue waters of the flooded oceans on a speeding clipper ship. Nailer, a small-framed teenage boy, is scavenging through an old rusty ship for copper wire. This infuriates several parties, including Nailer's father, the local power brokers, and Nita's father's enemies, including Nita's uncle Pyce. After a storm, Nailer rescues Nita, the stranded daughter of a wealthy merchant, and helps her to get back home. His mother died when he was a young boy and he now lives with his alcoholic and drug addicted father, Richard Lopez. Nailer is a fifteen-year-old boy who works on the light crew. On the Gulf Coast nearby, humanity has reverted to survival mode and a small economy has grown from the scavenging of washed up oil tankers for bits of copper and other valuables. The polar ice caps have melted and New Orleans is underwater. Human civilization is in decline for ecological reasons. Ship Breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi set in a post-apocalyptic future. ![]()
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