Binding: Hardcover
Description: One of Time's Top 10 Books of 2024 One of Electric Lit's Top 5 Books of 2024 One of 100 Notable Books of 2024 at The New York Times A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub The Guardian and Kirkus A Dakota Johnson x Tea Time Book Club Pick A Best Book of the Year (So Far): The New York Times Book Review Time Elle Esquire Goodreads and WBEZ Chicago A Must - Read: Nylon The Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle Chicago Review of Books Literary Hub The Millions Kirkus Reviews Book Riot The Christian Science Monitor Our Culture The Saturday Evening Post Philadelphia magazine" A monumental accomplishment a shimmering masterpiece." - Michael Schaub The Boston Globe" A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life." - Dakota Johnson Bustle From the acclaimed author of Parakeet Marie - Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a wise tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings. For years as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then at a precarious moment a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone? Marie - Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home and it introduces a gentle unforgettable alien for our times.
Title: Beautyland A Novel
Author(s): Bertino Marie - Helene
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374109288
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/16/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction