Description: "Not only entertaining, but nuanced and wiseblending 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) "Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. Heart-tuggingit is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human.Nicely unpredictableExtraordinary." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times "A funny, compelling love story from the freshest voice I've heard in years. Shine Shine Shine picked me up and left me changed in ways I never expected. Intelligent, emotional, and relentlessly new, Netzer answers questions you didn''t know you were already asking and delivers an unforgettable take on what it means to love, to be a mother, and to be human." -Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and Ape House "From the icy dead surface of the moon to the hot center of the human heart, Lydia Netzer''s debut novel takes you on a rocket ride that will rattle your bones. Part science fiction, part pure magic of the human kind, Netzer makes a book that is wholly her own, and endlessly fascinating. At every turn, you think she cannot astonish you again, and then she does it one more time. And then again and again and again. This is an astounding first novel by a writer who is unique in her immense gifts." -Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife "Creating one of the most compelling protagonists I've read in a long time, Lydia Netzer manages to capture the outsider in each of us. Whether looking at the moon, a child, the suburban landscape, or the face in the mirror, Netzer shows us something we've never seen before, something we thought we knew. A beautifully written story where the exception proves the rule: the things that seem to divide us are, ultimately, the very things that unite us." -Brunonia Barry, New York Ti mes bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places . "A perfectly structured gem of a book that held me spellbound as I unraveled the twisted histories of this unconventional family. You've never read anything like it, and yet Sunny's story is every woman's story. We are all outsiders, all alone in space, all trying so hard to find a place called home. I loved this book." -Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints "An astronaut, an autistic child, a bald woman and a meteor collide, churning up the ground around a couple of decades-old murders. Life and death intersect in this wildly inventive love story I will be talking about and thinking about for years to come. If Yann Martel and Mary Gaitskill had a literary baby, it would look a lot like Lydia Netzer." -Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose "Netzer deftly illuminates the bonds that transcend shortcomings and tragedy. Characterized by finely textured emotions and dramatic storytelling, Netzer''s world will draw readers happily into its orbit." - Publishers Weekly "Netzer has beautifully crafted an original story with a cast of characters who make up an unconventional but strangely believable family...This story will shine, shine, shine for all adult readers." - Library Journal , starred review "There are certain novels that are just twisty, delightfully so. Shine, Shine, Shine is one. In this first novel, Lydia Netzer takes a hard look at being completely human through the eyes of two people who are kinda not Shine, Shine, Shine may ask an old question. But Netzer's answer to how to be who you are is fresh from the heart." New York Daily News "Netzer''s first novel, the wacky, touching and deliciously readable "Shine Shine Shine," draws heavily on her own unconventional lifethis unassuming novelist is the it girl of contemporary literature." The Virginian Pilot "Narrator Joshilyn Jackson provides an animated performance of this unique novel whose characters come alive with her pacing and precise articulation. She smoothly transitions from the placid tones of the protagonist, Sunny, a bald super-wife and mother extraordinaire, to the staccato, robotic voice of Sunny's autistic child. As Sunny's astronaut husband, who is floating in space, she uses a dry, analytical-sounding tone. For a tacky broadcast anchorman, she provides an exaggerated voice, and for the family's Stepford-like neighbors, she uses spaced-out tones. Jackson's dynamic character portrayals capture the freshness of Netzer's out-of-this-world story." RealTime Reviews (audiobook) "Shine Shine Shine is an exquisitely written debut novel about family. All of Netzer''s characters are quirky and unique, as well as damaged. Not every novel features a bald Caucasian woman, born in Burma, who is married to a rocket scientist on the autism spectrum. Even so, Shine Shine Shine is never quirky for the sake of quirkiness - Sunny, Maxon and all of the supporting characters are fully fledged and realistic so that they draw the reader in almost immediately with their strong and life-like voices. A story of personal growth and discovery that is unlike any you have read before, Shine Shine Shine will not fail to entertain and move you." SheKnows.com "The novel traces Maxon and Sunny's relationship from their childhoods in Burma and Appalachia to outer space, revealing the futility of chasing an ideal of what's normal Shine Shine Shine breaks free of the gravitational pull of traditional romantic clichés." The Washington Post "Netzer has penned a modern take on alienation, building a family, making connections - creating memorable characters and an odd, idiosyncratic, but highly believable narrative along the way." The Toronto Star

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