Beautyland

A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review,TimeElleEsquireGoodreadsand WBEZ Chicago A Must-Read: NylonThe Boston GlobeSan Francisco ChronicleChicago Review of BooksLiterary HubThe MillionsKirkus ReviewsBookRiotThe Christian Science MonitorOur CultureThe Saturday Evening PostPhiladelphia magazine ΓÇ£A monumental accomplishmenta shimmering masterpiece.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöMichael SchaubThe Boston Globe ΓÇ£A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöDakota JohnsonBustle From the acclaimed author of ParakeetMarie-Helene BertinoΓÇÖs Beautyland is a wisetender novel about a woman who doesnΓÇÖt feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden recorda baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundicedbut she reaches for warmth and light. As a childshe recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relativesbeings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings. For yearsas she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humansshe dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Thenat a precarious momenta beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone? Marie-Helene BertinoΓÇÖs 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 homeand it introduces a gentleunforgettable alien for our times.