When I tell my friends and family this, they immediately become distressed, and I understand: what could possibly drive a person to want to abandon their entire life and potential future to travel lightyears away, on a very dangerous journey, to an uninhabited, desolate wasteland? Since I was a child, I’ve always said that if I were given the opportunity to travel on a one-way trip to Mars, I would take it. The stars are beautiful, but I’d give them up for good just to see your face. Ancrum for providing a copy of her novel in exchange for an honest review. And its up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the two misfits are brought together despite themselves-and Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria’s mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system.Įvery night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars.
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