OPENING LINE:

We had voyaged far into space and now we were returning.

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A boy is kidnapped from his aunt’s care during a trip to the planetarium at the start of this novel, which spans 15 years and several continents as the two slowly work to find each other again. The author is a poet, which shows in his luminously gorgeous prose and patent love of names and wordplay. This dreamy work is obsessed with notions of loss, fate, discovery and destiny; but it also grounds the reader with two fantastic characters both struggling to find what they are looking for while ending up exactly where they need to be.

Check the BPL catalog for this title: A Trip to the Stars