“The Windup Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi

I found this book harder to get into then “The Waterknife” because it was written on a more intellectual level, with a great deal of talk. Additionally, it took place in Thailand and so used a number of foreign words, and the world that Bacigalupi introduced was filled with concepts that we are not used to in current society. He did not explain those concepts. You come to understand them as the book progresses.