“Netzer's storytelling method is as poetic as her language.

“Not only entertaining, but nuanced and wise…blending wit and imagination with an oddly mesmerizing, matter-of-fact cadence, Netzer's debut is a delightfully unique love story and a resounding paean to individuality.” - People (People Pick) This masterful, flawless narration of an imaginative novel is something special and not to be missed.” - Publishers Weekly on Shine Shine Shine, a Publishers Weekly ‘Best Audiobook of the Year', 2012 “While Jackson conveys all the book's humor, her reading is also full of empathy, and she brings out the characters' underlying humanity. Shine Shine Shine is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012. And nothing will ever be the same.…Ī 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. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blond wig all come tumbling to the light. When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. But now they're parents to an autistic son. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. 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. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. Heart-tugging…it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human….Nicely unpredictable…Extraordinary.' -Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Shine shine shine by lydia netzer