01741cam a2200301 i 4500 1048805953 TxAuBib 20240129120000.0 230811s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023031180 9780374109288 HRD 28.00 0374109281 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Bertino, Marie-Helene, author. Beautyland [BOOK] / Marie-Helene Bertino. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. 326 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings. For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone?". 20240129. Young women Fiction. Space and time Fiction. Extraterrestrial beings Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction.