"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"-- "At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The...

What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, a new, alternate reality was created--the life that would've been? What if those new Realities were in danger? What if it were up to you to save all the realities--and in turn, the entire universe? Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. Tick, was living a regular life until the day a strange letter arrived in his mailbox. Postmarked from Alaska and cryptically signed with the initials...