Beautyland: A Novel
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Marie-Helene Bertino. (2024). Beautyland: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Marie-Helene Bertino. 2024. Beautyland: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

Marie-Helene Bertino. Beautyland: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

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   • bioText: Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Beautyland, Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City's Center for Fiction, and her work has twice been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Mississippi Review 30. She is the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University.
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One of Time's Top 10 Books of 2024
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One of 100 Notable Books of 2024 at The New York Times
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A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick
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A Must-Read: Nylon, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Review of Books, Literary Hub, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, BookRiot, The Christian Science Monitor, Our Culture, The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia magazine

"A perfect little polished garnet of a novel" -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times
"A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life." —Dakota Johnson, Bustle
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth.
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 she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.
For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone?
Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home, and it introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.

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A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick
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