Mia joins a restoration crew traveling through deep space in a fish-shaped vessel to repair crumbling architecture on distant planets. The narrative moves between two timelines: Mia’s present work with her eccentric teammates and her past at a boarding school where she falls in love with a new student named Grace. When the crew learns of Mia’s lost connection, they venture into a forbidden, overgrown region of the galaxy called the Staircase to locate Grace and bring her back.
Fans of graphic novels and speculative fiction read this for its distinct visual world-building where spaceships resemble marine life and oxygen exists inside ancient ruins. Readers interested in queer romance and non-traditional family structures find a story about building a life among peers rather than biological relatives. The book provides a technical look at architectural preservation set against a backdrop of vast, silent celestial landscapes. One walks away with a sense of how personal history informs current loyalties and the logistical reality of searching for someone in an infinite vacuum.
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
