It Came from the Sky, Chelsea Sedoti
It Came from the Sky, Chelsea Sedoti
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It Came from the Sky

Author: Chelsea Sedoti

Narrator: Christopher Gebauer

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/04/2020


Synopsis

From the author of The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett and As You Wish comes the unforgettable story of the one small town's biggest hoax and the two brothers who started it all.

This is the absolutely true account of how Lansburg, Pennsylvania was invaded by aliens and the weeks of chaos that followed. There were sightings of UFOs, close encounters, and even abductions. There were believers, Truth Seekers, and, above all, people who looked to the sky and hoped for more.

Only...there were no aliens.

Gideon Hofstadt knows what really happened. When one of his science experiments went wrong, he and his older brother blamed the resulting explosion on extraterrestrial activity. And their lie was not only believed by their town?it was embraced. As the brothers go to increasingly greater lengths to keep up the ruse and avoid getting caught, the hoax flourishes. But Gideon's obsession with their tale threatened his whole world. Can he find a way to banish the aliens before Lansburg, and his life, are changed forever?

Told in a report format and comprised of interviews, blog posts, text conversations, found documents, and so much more, It Came from the Sky is a hysterical and resonant novel about what it means to be human in the face of the unknown.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on August 06, 2020

This was interesting! Even though this book is over 500 pages, it was really easy to fly through because it is not only told in really short chapters, but it also has a lot of fun mixed media elements woven in that made the story fly by. I will say, while I did overall enjoy this one, there was one......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 23, 2021

I still have a smile on my face when I'm thinking about this book. Written in short chapters, the author added text messages, collected data entries and various articles that put a new perspective on the subject. It is quite a long book, but it didn't feel long. I loved how the hoax took a life on i......more

Goodreads review by Katie on June 24, 2020

This was such a fun read! I really enjoyed seeing the story progress and seeing Gideon and Ishmael get sucked further and further into their lie, and I was so intrigued to see how everything turned out. There was a lot of this book that I struggled with Gideon. He could be really irritating at times......more