The Weight of the Stars, K. Ancrum
The Weight of the Stars, K. Ancrum
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The Weight of the Stars

Author: K. Ancrum

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/20/2021


Synopsis

A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances.

Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends.

One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann's offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the girls are brought together despite themselves—and Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria's mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system.

Every night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. And now it's up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more.

About K. Ancrum

K. Ancrum grew up in Chicago Illinois, under the illusory rigor of the Chicago Public School system. She attended Dominican University to study Fashion Merchandizing, but was lured into getting an English degree after spending too many nights experimenting with hard literary criticism and hanging out with unsavory types, like poetry students. Currently, she lives in Andersonville and writes books at work when no one is looking.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lala on May 18, 2020

I feel like calling books like this "quiet science fiction" ? though that's probably not a real term. What I mean is a story that is character driven, introspective and existential, with science and space being the motivation for the setting, but not the vehicle for the story itself. In this book we'......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on January 17, 2020

So perfect... so very perfect. Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Tumblr | Youtube | Twitch This was the January 2020 pick for the Dragons and Tea Book Club! 🐉☕......more

Goodreads review by Elle on March 30, 2022

All joking aside, this book was wonderful. @KaylaAncrum so kindly offered me an arc of The Weight of the Stars literally months ago, and my reading slump sort of destroyed my reading plans (oops), but. It. Was. Worth. The. Wait. Well-written, existential, and so so deeply human. And the last twenty......more

Goodreads review by emma on July 11, 2020

Anyone know if the program in this book, in which young people are recruited to spend their lives traveling through space in a rocket, is anywhere close to existing in real life? Because I’m interested. I’d like to be vaulted out of the atmosphere, if possible. Did this drag for me in the middle? Yes.......more