{"product_id":"satellite-love-9780771049873","title":"Satellite Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite--and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of the Month, a \u003ci\u003eToronto Life \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Nikkei Voice\u003c\/i\u003e summer read recommendation, one of Daily Hive's 10 Essential Reads to Celebrate Asian Canadian Writers, and one of \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e booksellers' Books of the Year.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the eve of the new millennium, in a half-forgotten city in southern Japan, sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast at school, and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at home, Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. But everything changes the evening she falls in love with the Low-Earth Orbit satellite (LEO for short). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a desperate act of longing and imagination, Anna calls Leo down to Earth, where he embarks on an extraordinary journey to understand his own humanity as well as the fragile mind of the young woman who conjured him into being. As Anna withdraws further into her own mysterious plans, Leo will be forced to question the limits of his devotion to his creator and the lengths he will go to protect her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarvellously inventive and yet grounded by a profound understanding of the human heart, Satellite Love is a brilliant and deeply moving meditation on loneliness, faith, and the yearning for meaning and connection. It is an unforgettable story about the indomitable power of the imagination and the mind's ability to heal itself, no matter the odds, no matter the cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENKI FERGUSON was born in New Brunswick to a family of writers and grew up in Calgary. He spent much of his childhood in the subtropical island of Kyushu, Japan, where his mother's family still resides. Fluent in Japanese and capable of making a decent sushi roll, Genki was the recipient of the 2017 Helen Pitt Award for visual arts, and recently completed a degree in Film Production while working part-time at Book Warehouse, an indie store in Vancouver.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510878343442,"sku":"9780771049873","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7f27e45c-3eaf-4d88-bc49-dfde19e97e9d.jpg?v=1730937804","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/satellite-love-9780771049873","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}