A New York Times Notable Book! "Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. Heart-tugging...it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human....Nicely unpredictable...Extraordinary." â??Janet Maslin, The New York Times When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different. Sunny was different. They were different together. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. But now they're parents to an autistic son. And Sunny is pregnant again. And her mother is dying in the hospital. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. What exactly has gone wrong? Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blond wig all come tumbling to the light. And nothing will ever be the same.... A debut of singular power and intelligence, Shine Shine Shine is a unique love story, an adventure between worlds, and a stunning novel of love, death, and what it means to be human. Shine Shine Shine is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012.… (plus d'informations)
I am always looking for the "something different"; browsing the shelves of my local library, I keep finding "copy-cat" books - the couple with the child murdered or kidnapped, the fantasy trying to emulate Hunger Games or (worse) Twilight and vampires, the terror-threat novels with their stereotypes.
Bless Lydia Netzer for writing her poignant book with new worlds to explore, to feel, to be a part of, and ti find similar places or events in my own life. ( )
This was an unexpected delight. The love story of a man, Maxon, who uses pseudocode to define his verbal and emotional responses to the world and his wife, Sunny, born with complete alopecia in Burma. The real heart of the novel is the tension between Sunny's desire to fit in with the world as it is, and hide her baldness, as a metaphor for the things that make us different from others, coming to terms with wanting to be the hero of a world of one's own making, with those who are different from us being the outsiders.
The writing is gorgeous. The story beneath the story, of Maxon going to help colonize the moon is interesting and numerous backstories flesh out both characters as full, flawed people, not just subject to the plot. ( )
Sunny, Maxon y su hijo de cuatro años, Bubber, forman la familia perfecta en un aparentemente perfecto barrio residencial. Cuando Maxon, un cientÃfico brillante, se embarca en una misión espacial para colonizar la luna, Sunny se ve desbordada por sus problemas: su madre está muy enferma en el hospital, Bubber es autista y recibe, a pesar de los remordimientos de Sunny, una medicación muy agresiva, y está a punto de dar a luz a susegundo hijo. Además es calva, nació sin un solo pelo en el cuerpo. Cuando pierde su peluca en un accidente de coche y expone su verdadero aspecto ante los vecinos, por primera vez se pregunta: ¿y si fuera capaz de mostrarme tal como soy? Esta aparentemente estrafalaria mezcla de ingredientes se convierte en una historia universal sobre la familia, el amor y el valor de ser uno mismo, narrada con una ternura extraordinaria.
I was good with this quirky story up until the last few pages. Maybe it was how the author alluded to future, but I got a little confused on if everything was really happening or if it was just a hallucination. A more clearly defined ending would have made this a pick for me. ( )
This book is about a bald woman, who has been dearly loved her whole life. This book is about being an unusual child, and about being a parent of an unusual child. This book is about living in normal house in a normal suburb with normal neighbors, who are not normal. This book is about love. This book is about numbers, and formulas, and robots. This book is about stretching out blissfully naked in the sun on a large, comfortable rock. This book is about loss, and about heartbreak, and about resilience. This book is about a rocket ship to the moon. ( )
A New York Times Notable Book! "Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. Heart-tugging...it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human....Nicely unpredictable...Extraordinary." â??Janet Maslin, The New York Times When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different. Sunny was different. They were different together. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. But now they're parents to an autistic son. And Sunny is pregnant again. And her mother is dying in the hospital. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. What exactly has gone wrong? Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blond wig all come tumbling to the light. And nothing will ever be the same.... A debut of singular power and intelligence, Shine Shine Shine is a unique love story, an adventure between worlds, and a stunning novel of love, death, and what it means to be human. Shine Shine Shine is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012.
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Bless Lydia Netzer for writing her poignant book with new worlds to explore, to feel, to be a part of, and ti find similar places or events in my own life. (