Description
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) spins a brilliant multigenerational saga spanning two thousand years, from the collapse of the ancient Maya to a far-future utopia on the brink of civil war.
A stone-cold masterpiece -- New Scientist
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents--telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle.
Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne ofa Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion, racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.
In each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate--until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see.
The Actual Star is a feast of ideas about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going--and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.
Author: Monica Byrne
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 864
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 2.10d
ISBN13: 9780063117884
ISBN10: 0063117886
Large Print
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Alternative History
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical