Beautyland
A girl born the night Voyager launched reports back to her home planet by fax.
Adina Giorno is born in Philadelphia the night Voyager launches and begins faxing reports on human behaviour to the planet she believes she came from. Bertino keeps the question of whether she is an alien entirely unresolved, which lets the book work as a story about loneliness, immigrant mothers and being the wrong shape for the world you were put in.
Recommended by 1 Person
Jessica Francis Kane
This beautiful novel about Adina, a girl not quite of this world, is my favorite novel of the past year.
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