Shine shine shine
Ratings3
Average rating4.3
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Ratings3
Average rating4.3
Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down, but her husband Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon. Once they were two outcasts who found love in each other. Now they're parents to an autistic son. And Sunny is pregnant again. And her mother is dying. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home.
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This was an unexpected delight. The love story of a man, Maxon, who uses pseudocode to define his verbal and emotional responses to the world and his wife, Sunny, born with complete alopecia in Burma. The real heart of the novel is the tension between Sunny's desire to fit in with the world as it is, and hide her baldness, as a metaphor for the things that make us different from others, coming to terms with wanting to be the hero of a world of one's own making, with those who are different from us being the outsiders.
The writing is gorgeous. The story beneath the story, of Maxon going to help colonize the moon is interesting and numerous backstories flesh out both characters as full, flawed people, not just subject to the plot.
Was not quite sure where it was going, but loved where it went. Can't wait to read more by Netzer.
Sunny is facing lots of challenges in her life, and they all pull this refreshing novel forward. See my full review here: http://cliffordgarstang.com/?p=3646
