Beautyland

Even as a child, Adina Giorno knows that she is different. She is from a faraway planet.

Born at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced, she reaches for warmth and light. She stumbles through her first years on Earth until a fax machine arrives at home, enabling her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.

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. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her observations with the world. Is there a chance there are others like her out there?

Beautyland introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times, a companion to anyone who has ever felt in exile at home. It is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe.