Light From Uncommon Stars

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Even after the video game craze passed, the name stuck over the years, and up until when the Thamavuongs were ready to retire. Her poetry was featured at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and she was honored by the California State Senate for "extraordinary commitment to the visibility and well-being of Transgender people. So, of course, I wanted the book to end with Katrina being safe and cared for with the tenderness and interest that every kid deserves. And that is why kids with trauma backgrounds often say they want to grow up to work in a job where they can help other kids like them. Despite Aoki’s light touch, there are topics she broaches unflinchingly—within the first fifty of the novel’s nearly four-hundred pages, we hear of child abuse and witness instances of racism, transphobia, and rape.

It’s a breathtakingly beguiling premise and one that in less assured hands might have gone very wrong, very quickly. Watching her heal from a lifetime of bigotry and abuse is one of the great joys of Light From Uncommon Stars which sparkles with the vibrancy of identity truth and which happily celebrates the wonder that is a unique and diverse person whose worth and value are writ large if only you have to openness to see. Lin has worked hard to be allowed to study medicine even though she's a woman, but when her medical talents aren’t enough to help heal her best friend, she wonders if the answer lies in the study of forbidden magic. Light from Uncommon Stars hits the ground running, with the protagonist doing the same—she is fleeing an abusive home and a family that cannot accept her for being transgender.

Clare expertly balances the needs of a satisfying plot with dropping tantalizing hints of what’s to come in future installments. It’s just because I melted all the way into Katrina and Shizuka’s relationship, how these two people enter into it with the matter-of-fact assumption that Shizuka will do harm to Katrina and it’s just a question of how much harm and when, and then the way it shifts not just into Shizuka loving Katrina like a daughter, but into Katrina stepping up to protect and care for Shizuka as well. Food is also a welcome refrain in a novel that can be morally discomfiting, and in which danger constantly looms.

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