Aubrey Lane
The Streetlamp Artist
language
( Jan. 5, 2016)
Senior year is hard enough when you’re deciding between colleges; it’s even worse when you have to choose between worlds.
Patricia Reynolds has been waiting tables for three out of her seventeen years, but she's never gotten a tip this big before. Her comfortable life in the American South is shattered the day an irregular customer tells her that she has been misplaced in this universe—she belongs to the one “next door.” The new world seems to be everything she’s never known she wanted, but her family can’t come with her, and she can’t bounce back and forth forever.
Patricia’s struggle to decide where she belongs and discover how she got misplaced pulls her closer to an energy crisis, state secrets, and a young man who seems to be hiding something behind his pretty face. She finds her answers entwined with the life of Rynnia Tartarind, a mysterious young girl who disappeared some twenty years earlier. Patricia learns that, far from being the heroine she has started to imagine she is, her situation is the result of a tragic accident. She confronts the same force Rynnia fought years ago: the goddess Fate, who is the guiding hand behind a failing planet, and whose influence in Patricia’s life is ultimately inescapable.
Patricia Reynolds has been waiting tables for three out of her seventeen years, but she's never gotten a tip this big before. Her comfortable life in the American South is shattered the day an irregular customer tells her that she has been misplaced in this universe—she belongs to the one “next door.” The new world seems to be everything she’s never known she wanted, but her family can’t come with her, and she can’t bounce back and forth forever.
Patricia’s struggle to decide where she belongs and discover how she got misplaced pulls her closer to an energy crisis, state secrets, and a young man who seems to be hiding something behind his pretty face. She finds her answers entwined with the life of Rynnia Tartarind, a mysterious young girl who disappeared some twenty years earlier. Patricia learns that, far from being the heroine she has started to imagine she is, her situation is the result of a tragic accident. She confronts the same force Rynnia fought years ago: the goddess Fate, who is the guiding hand behind a failing planet, and whose influence in Patricia’s life is ultimately inescapable.