BEAUTYLAND

A wise tender novel about a woman who doesnt feel at home on Earth.One of the best books I have read this year KALIANE BRADLEY GuardianA perfect little polished garnet of a novel New York TimesBorn at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced she reaches for warmth and light. As a child she recognises she is different not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet. When a fax machine arrives at home her suspicions are confirmed: it allows her to communicate with her extraterrestrial relatives who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.As Adina makes a life for herself among humans she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and delights of their existence. Then at a precarious moment a beloved friend urges her to share her observations with the world. Is there a chance there are others like her out there?Beautyland is a shyly joyful novel about real life on our planet the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe.Beautyland is a miracle. Ill be rereading it forever KAVEH AKBARBeautiful and hilarious and transcendent . . . Bertino is an other-worldly talent TOMMY ORANGEA book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life DAKOTA JOHNSON