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Beautyland / Marie-Helene Bertino.
"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 reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also 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. But at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone? A blazing novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe, Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a remarkable evocation of feeling in exile at home and introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374109288 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 322 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Subject: | Extraterrestrial beings > Fiction. Human beings > Fiction. Supernatural > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Berti | 31681010358794 | FICTION | Available | - |
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Catâs Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank OâConnor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York Cityâs Center for Fiction, and her work has twice been featured on NPRâs Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Yale University and lives in Brooklyn.
