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Satellite Love

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 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. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Littérature mondiale Fantastique Magique Sincère Méditation
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Great performances from all the narrators. I believe this story is better experienced as an audiobook than in physical book form. Their performances deserve an Audie Ensemble Award. I loved the portrayals of the main characters particularly the grandfather and his heartbteaking struggle to understand his surroundings.

It's a coming-of-age drama with a slight hint of sci-fi. Without spoiling anything, there are also deeper philosophical themes within the story the book description smartly leaves out and best discovered on your own.

There are some character elements and story plots that were not fully explained and expect you to just "go with it", which is arguably intended by the author as part of the narrative's main message of the importance or irrelevance of questioning what we do not understand.

Beautiful narration of a bittersweet story

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