Beautyland
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This transportive novel combines literary writing with a bang-on sci-fi premise. There are aliens and Carl Sagan and communiques to space, and/but it's about a special girl and how we experience our humanity. In the world of this book, at the exact moment that Voyager 1 was launched into space, a baby girl named Adina — an alien from another planet — was born prematurely to a single mother in Philadelphia. Living undercover, she routinely sends messages to the aliens light years away; her communiques are silly and sweet, melancholy, wistful. She NOTICES things. Her observations are a record of…
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