Light From Uncommon Stars

Shannan says: "This novel has everything in it and I do mean everything. A higher intelligence is hiding from a galactic war that Earth is blissfully unaware of. That’s the sci-fi. A violin instructor has been selling the souls of her prodigy students to the devil to escape hell. That’s the fantasy. There is violin making, donut making, and the making of a transgender runaway into the violinist she was born to be. It took me a while to get into this, not because I wasn’t sure what was happening, but because of the multiple storylines. But they all come together in the end and Aoki’s writing is masterful."