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The Actual Star: A Novel - Paperback
HarperLuxe
ISBN13:
9780063117884
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David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) spins a brilliant multigenerational saga spanning two thousand years, from the collapse of the ancient Maya to a far-future utopia on the brink of civil war. The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents --telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne ofa Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion and racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change. In each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate--until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see. The Actual Star is a feast of ideas about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going--and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.
- | Author: Monica Byrne
- | Publisher: HarperLuxe
- | Publication Date: September 14, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 864 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0063117886
- | ISBN-13: 9780063117884
- Author:
- Monica Byrne
- Publisher:
- HarperLuxe
- Publication Date:
- September 14, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 864 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0063117886
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063117884