It’s an event which has unexpected and far-reaching consequences for the inhabitants of Earth, with the novel focusing specifically on 16-year-old Tara Krishnan, an outsider at a fancy Connecticut high school. Mirror in the Sky begins with an astonishing scientific discover: an Earth-like planet light-years away, which appears to have responded to a long-ago-sent communication. And yet its contents still remained a mystery. But what my mother experienced as a transcendent moment of amazement at the idea of another world just like ours so, so far away turned out to be only the exterior of a package labeled, stamped, and sent to us with a kind of precision and foresight we might have expected from the cosmos had we been the sort to believe in things like symmetry and order. It could have been the kind of story that came and went, eclipsed by another news cycle. I’m going to do it anyway, however, because Aditi Khorana’s debut YA novel, Mirror in the Sky, definitely possesses this attribute. “Interesting” is something of a loaded word, isn’t it? It’s hard to describe anything, particularly a book as interesting without giving the impression that you mean something else entirely “interesting” can be a euphemism for so many descriptions which one might feel too polite to apply to someone’s life’s work, which makes it rather tricky to know how to refer to a book that is actually, genuinely interesting.
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