Dear Stupid Penpal

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Atticus Finch Davani does not want to be an astronaut. He hates space he hates the ship and he strongly dislikes his fellow crew members. He makes that painfully clear in his letters to Aku his corporate-assigned penpal back on Earth. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Soon Aku becomes much more than a penpal. But when the crew engage hyperdrive Aku's punctual letters start coming at random intervals and Finch and his shipmates realize that time for them is moving all wrong.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As everyone else's penpals rapidly die of old age Finch turns heartbroken to Aku; who more than a century later is still there. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>DEAR STUPID PENPAL is an entirely epistolary exploration of cosmic dread the passing of time and the lifelines we cling to against the vast endlessness of space.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A joyously weird tale of unexpected genre mashups overwhelming odds quotable lines and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in.</span></p><ul><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Í</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>de Hennessey</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Sequoia Point </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Split Scream: Off the Map</em></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again...sits alongside </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This Is How You Lose the Time War </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>as a blueprint for compelling propulsive epistolary [fiction].</span></p><ul><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Emma Cole</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Love Never Dies </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>editor at Harlequin Books</span></li></ul><p></p>