From the New York Times bestselling author of Cocoon--adapted
into an Academy Award-winning movie--comes a sci-fi adventure about
family, love, and, in a universe teeming with life, deciding who and
what are the aliens.
Six single, semi-retired, "older" women are inseparable friends. But
their lives start to go haywire when mischievous Rosie submits her
friends' names to an ad soliciting "Mail Order Brides for Farmers &
Miners--Distant Locations." A few weeks later, as the six women are
driving along a lonely beach road, their vehicle suddenly begins to
shake, the sky grows dark, an eerie light envelops the van, and
ZAP--it's gone!
Exactly three years later, the van reappears on the same road. But this
time, the women appear to be thirty years younger--and they're all
pregnant!
The "distant locations" advertised were, in fact, elsewhere in our
galaxy. A process, required for deep space travel, has somehow reversed
their aging. They are happy with their new lives. However, a universal
law requires that babies of "mixed-mating" be born on the mother's home
planet, forcing their return. But as they re-adapt to life on earth,
surprises and problems arise as they're faced with a media circus,
doctors, nurses, police, priests, and nuns, not to mention their new
humanoid mates.
In Saperstein's wacky, comedic-drama tradition that's out of this world,
Snatched builds to an exciting, uplifting climax that celebrates life,
love, and the universal condition known as family.
