Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

“Luminous, genre-bending, and out of this world” – Kirkus Starred Review

Its been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinezs mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but its hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her moms deportation as an unfortunate incident.

Sia knows that her mom must be dead, but every new moon Sia drives into the desert and lights San Anthony and la Guadalupe candles to guide her mom home.

Then one night, under a million stars, Sias life and the world as we know it cracks wide open. Because a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sias carand its carrying her mom, whos very much alive.

As Sia races to save her mom from armed-quite-possibly-alien soldiers, she uncovers secrets as profound as they are dangerous in this stunning and inventive exploration of first love, family, immigration, and our vast, limitless universe.