READ OF THE MONTH

Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

"[A] remarkable funny-sad novel...Astonishing."

Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review

Even as a child, Adina Giorno knows that she is different. She is from a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine allows her to report back on the oddities of Earthlings. For years, she makes a life for herself among humans and dispatches transmissions on the terrors and wonders of their existence. Then a friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone? Tender, joyful, and startlingly original, Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a novel about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth, and a story for anyone who has ever felt not quite at home in this world.