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
ReviewAristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie
Halse Anderson in this astonishing genre-bending novel about a Mexican American teen who
discovers profound connections between immigration folklore and alien life.It's been three
years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran.
Three years since Sia Martinez's mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on but it's hard in her
tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom's 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
Sia's life and the world as we know it cracks wide open. Because a blue-lit spacecraft crashes
in front of Sia's car...and it's carrying her mom who's very much alive.As Sia races to save
her mom from armed-quite-possibly-alien 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.
