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In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them this book feels like a kind of magic celebrating all beliefs ethnicities and unknowns The New York Times Book Review

Aristotle amp Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing genrebending novel about a Mexican American teen who discovers profound connections between immigration folklore and alien life

Its been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an illfated walk across the Sonoran Three years since Sia Martinezs mom disappeared Sia wants to move on but its hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her moms deportation as an unfortunate incident

Sia knows that her mom must be dead but every new moon Sia drives into the desert and lights San Anthony and la Guadalupe candles to guide her mom home

Then one night under a million stars Sias life and the world as we know it cracks wide open Because a bluelit spacecraft crashes in front of Sias carand its carrying her mom whos very much alive

As Sia races to save her mom from armedquitepossiblyalien soldiers she uncovers secrets as profound as they are dangerous in this stunning and inventive exploration of first love family immigration and our vast limitless universe