St. Martin's Press, 7/2012
“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 Times
When
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.
