Overview
A Belletrist Book Club Pick
A People “Must-Read Book” • A Good Housekeeping “Books Everyone Will Be Talking About This Summer” • A Financial Times “Best New Science Fiction Book” • A Debutiful and She Reads “Most Anticipated”
“A stunner about memory, connection, and belief.”—People
"In the tradition of Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Meg Charlton’s Voyagers is a finely written and propulsive novel about the enduring power of friendship. It takes on big issues: the reliability of memory, the price of childhood fame, the ways adults use children for their own purposes. It’s also a book about aliens, geared for terrestrials. Which is to say it’s complex and human, anchored by a beating heart.”—Joshua Henkin
With the imaginative scope and dynamic storytelling of Station Eleven and The Ministry of Time, Voyagers is a thrillingly original and brilliantly ambitious literary debut about friendship at the end of the world.
When the Signal—a mysterious transmission pulsing from the edge of the solar system—arrives, the world changes overnight. Planes are grounded, satellites fail, and speculation abounds. Many believe this could be first contact with extraterrestrial life. But for Alex, a thirtysomething lawyer who’s spent years distancing himself from the unexplainable, the Signal feels deeply personal—the opening of an old wound.
Decades ago, Alex and a girl named Ana both vanished for thirty-six hours while on vacation near Palm Springs. When they returned, dazed but unharmed, the six-year-olds’ account of their experience had all the hallmarks of an alien abduction. The media frenzy that followed made them famous and forged a seemingly unbreakable bond between them—until the mystery behind their disappearance began to tear them apart.
With the Signal growing stronger, Alex is drawn back to Ana. Now a professional advocate for experiencers of extra-terrestrial contact, she’s leading a retreat near the site of their childhood disappearance. As they tentatively reunite, what starts as a quest to confront the reality of their childhood experience becomes a larger reckoning with friendship, faith, family, and truth itself—what it means to see the stories we tell ourselves for what they really are.
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