Wuftoom
A Novel
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Publisher Description
An “absolutely unique” story of a boy who finds himself slowly morphing into a strange new kind of creature (Booklist).
Everyone thinks Evan is sick. Everyone thinks science will find a cure. But Evan knows he is not sick; he is transforming . . .
Evan’s metamorphosis has him confined to his bed, constantly terrified, and completely alone. Alone except for his visits from the Wuftoom, a wormlike creature that tells him he is becoming one of them.
Clinging to his humanity and desperate to help his overworked single mother, Evan makes a bargain with the Vitflys, the sworn enemies of the Wuftoom. But when the bargain becomes blackmail and the Vitflys prepare for war, whom can Evan trust? Is saving his humanity worth destroying an entire species, and the only family he has left?
“Dark and unsettling, Thompson’s adventure presents a break from the same-old-same-old by creating something utterly new and weird.” —Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this wildly imaginative debut, Thompson creates a strange world of bizarre underground species at war with one another. Caught in the middle is Evan, a seventh-grader who has been slowly transforming into an inhuman creature ever since he stepped in a puddle of pink goo two years earlier. As he nears the end of his involuntary evolution into one of the amorphous, wormlike Wuftoom, he's recruited by the enigmatic Vitflies as a spy, a role he quickly comes to question. While Evan acclimates to his new nature and hungers, he's torn between loyalty to his new people and the life he left behind, forced to make a choice that could alter the balance of power underground. Dark and unsettling, Thompson's adventure presents a break from the same-old-same-old by creating something utterly new and weird sexy YA paranormal this is not. While some plot elements, such as Evan's body-swapping jaunts, feel underexplored, this is a tale to jolt readers out of their complacency, where characters change in unfamiliar ways with no guarantee of a happy ending. Ages 12 up.
