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Starred Review on April 5, 2019 | Fiction
A family challenges the limits of love, loss, and space in Swyler's moving sophomore novel (after The Book of Speculation). In 1986, ten-year-old Nedda Pappas and her parents—a frustrated chemist-cum-baker and a melancholy astrophysicist—live just outside of Cape Canaveral, FL. Her father, crippled by arthritis and long laid off from NASA, has all but locked himself in his lab developing a new machine that c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More