"Unlike any book I've read." --David Arnold, New York Times
bestselling author of The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
"Breathtakingly imaginative and ambitious; dazzlingly beautiful and
profound." --Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent
King
"A coming-of-age novel like no other." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York
Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces
From the author of Tash Hearts Tolstoy comes a funny, moving novel
about the lengths we'll go to make our dreams come true that's perfect
for fans of Shaun David Hutchinson and Rainbow Rowell.
Slater, Kansas, is a small town where not much seems to happen.
Stella dreams of being a space engineer. After Stella's mom dies by
suicide and her brother runs off to Red Sun, the local hippie commune,
Stella is forced to bring her dreams down to earth to care for her
sister, Jill.
Galliard has only ever known life inside Red Sun. There, people accept
his tics, his Tourette's. But when he's denied Red Sun's resident artist
role, which he'd believed he was destined for, he starts to imagine a
life beyond the gates of the compound...
The day Stella and Galliard meet, there is something in the air in their
small town. Literally. So begin weeks of pink lightning, blood red rain,
unexplained storms...And a countdown clock appears mysteriously above
the town hall. With time ticking down to some great unknowable end
they'll each have to make a choice.
If this is really the end of the world, who do they want to be when they
face it?