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Release date: July 17, 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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What's it about?
Sunny Mann has masterminded a life for herself and her family in a quiet Virginia town. Her house and her friends are picture-perfect. Even her genius husband, Maxon, has been trained to pass for normal. But when a fender bender on an average day sends her coiffed blonde wig sailing out the window, her secret is exposed. Not only is she bald, Sunny is nothing like the Stepford wife she’s trying to be. As her facade begins to unravel, we discover the singular world of Sunny, an everywoman searching for the perfect life, and Maxon, an astronaut on his way to colonize the moon.
Recognition:
Shine Shine Shine was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book in 2012, a People's Pick of the Week in People Magazine, Amazon's Spotlight Book of the Month, made iTunes' list of Best Books of 2012, and the audiobook was Publisher's Weekly's Fiction Audiobook of the Year for 2012. For more reviews, click here.
Blurbs:
“A funny, compelling love story from the freshest voice I’ve heard in years. SHINE, SHINE, SHINE picked me up and left me changed in ways I never expected. Intelligent, emotional, and relentlessly new, Netzer answers questions you didn't know you were already asking and delivers an unforgettable take on what it means to love, to be a mother, and to be human.”
---Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House
"From the icy dead surface of the moon to the hot center of the human heart, Lydia Netzer's debut novel takes you on a rocket ride that will rattle your bones. This is an astounding first novel by a writer who is unique in her immense gifts."
---Robert Goolrick, New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife.
"Creating one of the most compelling protagonists I’ve read in a long time, Lydia Netzer manages to capture the outsider in each of us. Whether looking at the moon, a child, the suburban landscape, or the face in the mirror, Netzer shows us something we’ve never seen before, something we thought we knew. A beautifully written story where the exception proves the rule: the things that seem to divide us are, ultimately, the very things that unite us."
---Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places.
“A perfectly structured gem of a book that held me spellbound as I unraveled the twisted histories of this unconventional family. You’ve never read anything like it, and yet Sunny’s story is every woman’s story. We are all outsiders, all alone in space, all trying so hard to find a place called home. I loved this book.”
---Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints
“An astronaut, an autistic child, a bald woman and a meteor collide, churning up the ground around a couple of decades-old murders. Life and death intersect in this wildly inventive love story I will be talking about and thinking about for years to come. If Yann Martel and Mary Gaitskill had a literary baby, it would look a lot like Lydia Netzer.”
---Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose
