Meg Charlton

Voyagers (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"In the tradition of Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Meg Charlton's Voyagers is a finely written and propulsive novel about the enduring power of friendship. It takes on big issues: the reliability of memory, the price of childhood fame, the ways adults use children for their own purposes. It's also a book about aliens, geared for terrestrials. Which is to say it's complex and human, anchored by a beating heart.Joshua Henkin

When the Signala mysterious transmission pulsing from the edge of the solar system arrives, the world changes overnight. Planes are grounded, satellites fail, and speculation abounds. With many believing it could be first contact with extraterrestrial life, humanity holds its breath. But for Alex, a thirtysomething lawyer who's spent years distancing himself from the unexplainable, the Signal feels deeply personalthe opening of an old wound.

Decades ago, Alex and a girl named Ana both vanished for thirty-six hours while on vacation in Palm Springs. When they returned, dazed but unharmed, the six-year-olds' account of the experience had all the hallmarks of an alien abduction. The media frenzy that followed made them famous, and the long months of child stardom, of talk shows and sitcom cameos, forged a seemingly unbreakable bond between themuntil the mystery behind their disappearance began to tear them apart.

Now, with the world on edge and the Signal growing stronger, Alex is drawn back to the one person who might have answers. Ananow a professional advocate for experiencers of extraterrestrial contactis leading a retreat near Palm Springs, a stone's throw from the site of their childhood disappearance. As the former best friends tentatively reunite, what starts as a quest to confront the reality of their original experience becomes a larger reckoning with friendship, faith, family, and truth itselfwhat it means to see the stories we tell ourselves for what they really are.

With the imaginative soul and propulsive storytelling of Station Eleven and The Ministry of Time, Voyagers is a thrillingly original and brilliantly ambitious literary debut about friendship at the end of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063441231
• Artikelnr.: 75449371

Autorenporträt

Meg Charlton's work has appeared in the Yale Review, Slate, Lux, Atlas Obscura, Vice, and the anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and teaches at Sackett Street Writers. She lives in New York City.

Rezensionen

"In the tradition of Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Meg Charlton's Voyagers is a finely written and propulsive novel about the enduring power of friendship. It takes on big issues: the reliability of memory, the price of childhood fame, the ways adults use children for their own purposes. It's also a book about aliens, geared for terrestrials. Which is so say it's complex and human, anchored by a beating heart." - Joshua Henkin, author of Morningside Heights