God is an Astronaut

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A stunning story of a woman, a marriage and an impossible love 'From the first page, I was drawn in by this gripping and winning novel. The writing is fresh, vivid, and funny, beautifully capturing the mysteries of both the cosmos and our daily lives' MADELINE MILLER, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles 'An incredibly powerful modern love story' COSMOPOLITAN ____________________ As though a gesture could save anyone in this universe where even the smallest pieces are hurtling away from one another at the speed of light. Thats all then. Or all I can say right now. What say you Jess Frobisher is a botany professor at the local university. Her husband, Liam, works for a space tourism company called Spaceco, which has just become front-page news: one of their shuttles exploded shortly after lift-off, killing everyone on board. The press descends. With the future of the company in doubt, two filmmakers approach Liam about making a documentary on the space tourism industry. Seeing this as an opportunity to save Spaceco, Liam agrees to cooperate, assembling a team for another trip into space. When he asks Jess to go, she must decide how far shes willing to go to save her faltering marriage and her life as she knows it.

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From the first page, I was drawn in by this gripping and winning novel. The writing is fresh, vivid, and funny, beautifully capturing the mysteries of both the cosmos and our daily lives * Madeline Miller, author of the Orange Prize winning The Song of Achilles *
A witty and original novel, rich in pithy insights, gloriously spot-on with regard to the yearning middle-aged heart stalwartly beating amid the complexities family life. Lost love and lost socks co-exist here, as our engaging botanist heroine digs her way to an unexpected epiphany * Barbara Trapido *
Alyson Fosters unusual novel God is an Astronaut updates the classic epistolary form for the Google age This is an impressive novel, full of wry humour and, perhaps, a covert ecological message * Independent *
An incredibly powerful modern love story * Cosmopolitan *

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Alyson Foster grew up in Michigan and received her BA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, winning a Hopwood Award for her fiction. She received her MFA from George Mason University, where she was a Completion Fellow, and her short fiction has appeared in various publications Alyson Foster lives in Washington D.C., where she works for the National Geographic library and writes for the Nat Geo News Watch blog. @alysonafoster