The Moonday Letters
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A lyrical science fiction mystery wrapped in a LGBTQ love story that bends space, time, myth, and science—perfect for fans of Octavia Butler and Emily St. John Mandel.
“Dreamy and mysterious and nearly impossible to pin down.” —Paste Magazine
Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to find them but it is no simple feat: each clue uncovers another enigma. Their disappearance leads back to underground environmental groups and a web of mystery that spans the space between the planets themselves.
Told through letters and extracts, the course of Lumi’s journey takes her not only from the affluent colonies of Mars to the devastated remnants of Earth, but into the hidden depths of Sol’s past and the long-forgotten secrets of her own.
Part space-age epistolary, part eco-thriller, and a love story between two individuals from very different worlds.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The contemplative latest from Finnish author Itäranta (Memory of Water) eloquently demonstrates how deeply people need love even—or especially—in the presence of death. The story is largely told through hopeful letters addressed to missing ethnobotanist Sol Uriarte by their spouse, Lumi Salo. Sol's science-based worldview might seem incompatible with healer Lumi's spiritual awareness of other worlds, but both yearn for each other. Both are also disturbed by how the human colonists on Mars and Earth's other extensions are shunning refugees from humanity's dreadfully polluted home planet. Now Luni suspects that Sol may have been seduced by the Stoneturners, an environmental terrorist organization willing to risk unleashing a biological attack that will either save life on Earth or end it once and for all. A desperate Luni forces her most precious tool as a healer—her soul-animal, capable of traversing worlds—into a dangerous, otherworldly mission to trace Sol in hopes that the two can reunite in Moonday House, the psychic retreat that they've imagined together. Itäranta accomplishes an impressive amount of worldbuilding in Lumi's letters and makes her longing for her soulmate palpable. The result is a quietly powerful meditation on the human need to share life and love with others.
