Everything about Shine, Shine, Shine is charmingly odd, full of feeling, and beautifully written. When Sunny’s wig falls off during a car accident, exposing her bare head to her neighbors for the first time, she starts to realize that this 'normal' life she has built is actually a huge problem. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Īmazon Best Books of the Month, July 2012: What is a 'normal' life? For Sunny, it means wearing a blond wig (she’s been bald since birth), medicating her autistic son (who wears a helmet because he bangs his head against walls), and teaching her brilliant but socially clueless husband, Maxon, how to interact with other humans (they whiteboard equations so he knows how to respond to compliments). Shine Shine Shine is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012. And nothing will ever be the same.Ī debut of singular power and intelligence, Shine Shine Shine is a unique love story, an adventure between worlds, and a stunning novel of love, death, and what it means to be human. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blond wig all come tumbling to the light. When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. But now they're parents to an autistic son.

Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be 'normal.' She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human.Nicely unpredictable.Extraordinary.' ―Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Shine shine shine by lydia netzer