SHINE SHINE SHINE

A New York Times Notable Book!Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. Heart-tugging…it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human….Nicely unpredictable…Extraordinary. —Janet Maslin The New York TimesWhen Maxon met Sunny he was seven years four months and eighteen-days old. Or he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different. Sunny was different. They were different together.Now twenty years later they are married and Sunny 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 found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous strange relationship formed from 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. Shine Shine Shine is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012.