A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl a boy and a satellite and a bittersweet
meditation on loneliness alienation and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada
Reads shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative
Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title a
Shelf Life Books Book of the Month a Toronto Life and Nikkei Voice summer read recommendation
one of Daily Hive's 10 Essential Reads to Celebrate Asian Canadian Writers and one of Quill &
Quire booksellers' Books of the Year. On the eve of the new millennium in a half-forgotten
city in southern Japan sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast
at school and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at
home Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. But everything
changes the evening she falls in love with the Low-Earth Orbit satellite (LEO for short). In a
desperate act of longing and imagination Anna calls Leo down to Earth where he embarks on an
extraordinary journey to understand his own humanity as well as the fragile mind of the young
woman who conjured him into being. As Anna withdraws further into her own mysterious plans Leo
will be forced to question the limits of his devotion to his creator and the lengths he will go
to protect her. Marvellously inventive and yet grounded by a profound understanding of the
human heart Satellite Love is a brilliant and deeply moving meditation on loneliness faith
and the yearning for meaning and connection. It is an unforgettable story about the indomitable
power of the imagination and the mind s ability to heal itself no matter the odds no matter
the cost.
