Idgie Says:
Not a review but a shout out for what looks to be an interesting premise for a book. How many of us have looked at our friends kids as potential mates for our own children?
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How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
Lyda Netzer
July 1, 2014
St. Martin's Press
HOW TO TELL TOLEDO FROM THE NIGHT SKY is a mind-bending, heart-shattering love story for dreamers and pragmatists alike, exploring
the conflicts of fate and determinism, and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the stars.
Beyond
the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, the
nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of
scientific
learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, a
dreamer and a man of deep faith, who's trying to prove the scientific
existence of a Gateway to God, and speaks to ancient gods and believes
they speak back. Its newest star is Irene
Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's
work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This
would be a scientist's dream come true, but it's particularly poignant
for Irene who has been in self-imposed exile
from Toledo and her estranged alcoholic mother, Bernice. When Bernice
dies unexpectedly, Irene resolves to return to Toledo, and sets in
motion a series of events which place George and Irene on a collision course with
love, destiny, and fate.
You
see, George and Irene were born to be together. Literally. Their
mothers, friends since childhood, hatched a plan to get pregnant
together, raise
the children together and then separate them so as to become each
other's soulmates as adults. Can true love exist if engineered from
birth?
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