Loompaland

For the Loompas who toil from birth to invariably gruesome death in the Wonka Candy Works, the massive Factory is the only world they know. After a grisly accident kills three of his colleagues, a case of mistaken identity sends Loompa Bill P. on a journey to William R. Wonka's inner circle, then to the toxic candy waste pits below the Factory, and ultimately to the forefront of a "Revoloomption." Loompaland unwraps a sticky confection of workers' rights, entrepreneur-worship, industrial food production, and the absurdities of unchecked corporate power. Gross candies roll off the lines, and the warning signs list all the fascinating ways a Loompa can be killed. Bill P and his fellow Loompas ricochet from triumph to disaster and back, in a novel that is fierce, funny, angry, and shot through with scenes of hilarity and terror.