Shine, Shine, Shine

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Shine Shine Shine
"A funny, compelling love story from the freshest voice I've heard in years. Shine Shine Shine picked me up and left me changed in ways I never expected. Intelligent, emotional, and relentlessly new." — Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House
"From the icy dead surface of the moon to the hot center of the human heart, Lydia Netzer's debut novel takes you on a rocket ride that will rattle your bones At every turn, you think she cannot astonish you again, and then she does it one more time. And then again and again and again. This is an astounding first novel by a writer who is unique in her immense gifts." —Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife
"Creating one of the most compelling protagonists I've read in a long time, Lydia Netzer manages to capture the outsider in each of us. Whether looking at the moon, a child, the suburban landscape, or the face in the mirror,... Tovább

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Praise for
Shine Shine Shine
"A funny, compelling love story from the freshest voice I've heard in years. Shine Shine Shine picked me up and left me changed in ways I never expected. Intelligent, emotional, and relentlessly new." — Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House
"From the icy dead surface of the moon to the hot center of the human heart, Lydia Netzer's debut novel takes you on a rocket ride that will rattle your bones At every turn, you think she cannot astonish you again, and then she does it one more time. And then again and again and again. This is an astounding first novel by a writer who is unique in her immense gifts." —Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife
"Creating one of the most compelling protagonists I've read in a long time, Lydia Netzer manages to capture the outsider in each of us. Whether looking at the moon, a child, the suburban landscape, or the face in the mirror, Netzer shows us something we've never seen before, something we
thought we knew. A beautifully written story." —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places
"A perfectly structured gem of a book that held me spellbound I loved this book." —Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints
"A wildly inventive love story I will be talking about and thinking about for years to come If Yann Martel and Mary Gaitskill had a literary baby, it would look a lot like Lydia Netzer." — Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose
When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen days old. Or, he was 2,693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different. Sunny was different. They were different together.
Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Siuiny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Once they were two outcasts who foxmd unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from an urgent desire for connection. But now they're parents to an autistic son. And Sunny is pregnant again. And her mother is dying in the hospital. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. What exactly has gone wrong?
Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home.
When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blond wig all come tumbling to the light. And nothing will ever be the same____
A debut of singular power and intelligence, Shine Shine Shine is a unique love story, an adventure between worlds, and a stunning novel of love, death, and what it means to be human. Vissza