On snowy Christmas 1957, during the coldest winds of the Cold War, an eleven-year-old American girl, with a "nonstandard" face and fascination with Martians, wishes for a miracle: to love and to be loved. Since there is no shooting star to wish upon, she wishes on the orbiting Russian spacecraft, Sputnik-is this a sign her love will be otherworldly? "If a love story isn't magical, it isn't a love story at all but a like story. I want to write a love story." Sidereus Sterling
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