It is no secret that planet Earth is home to the notoriously greedy species known as humans. What remains a secret to these humans is the community of aliens who live hidden under invisible force fields across neighboring planets and moons. They eat fried butterflies for lunch, travel through interplanetary vortexes, and coexist with giant bees, solar dragons, and hairy one-hundred-legged spiders-peacefully, for the most part.
Eighteen-year-old Truman Howard is not like his classmates. While they roll around in their parents' riches and travel the globe, Truman takes care of himself, working part time as a ski instructor and thrifting his clothes. He has no family, no friends, and a roommate who gives donkeys a bad rep.
But everything changes the day Truman meets a mysterious woman who invites him to an unforgettable place that will make him and anyone who reads his story feel like they belong. For it is there, among the stars, where Truman embarks on a remarkable voyage filled with new friends, fantastic creatures, and a dangerous destiny that's been brewing for him for many, many moons!
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J.Q. Gagliastro is the bestselling author and illustrator of The Diary of a Sugarbaby and Mercury to the Moon. Mercury to the Moon is a fantasy adventure novel for all reading ages, illustrated entirely by Gagliastro. The Los Angeles Book Review hailed Mercury to the Moon as "an imaginative triumph!" Mercury to the Moon is a #1 bestseller in Young Adult Fiction, Magical Realism, and Alien Sci-Fi. The Diary of a Sugarbaby is a #1 bestseller in LGBTQ+ Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Epistolary Fiction, and Political Fiction. NYC's Queer Book Club selected The Diary of a Sugarbaby as their October 2024 book. An instructor at the University of Florida and University of Wisconsin shortlisted The Diary of a Sugarbaby as required text for their queer studies programs. The Diary of a Sugarbaby was a 2023 finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards in Adult Fiction. The Manhattan Book Review called The Diary of a Sugarbaby "The Handmaid's Tale on steroids!" (Gagliastro prefers to call it The Handmaid's Tale seen through a queer lens.) Kirkus Reviews called The Diary of a Sugarbaby "a frightening novel about an unthinkable future!" While The Diary of a Sugarbaby is fiction, Gagliastro ties in their experiences as a homeless youth and twists them into a dramatic political satire. Mercury to the Moon confronts themes of sibling abandonment, forgiveness, queerness, international relations, and teenage friendships. Follow @jq.gagliastro.official on Instagram for upcoming projects, books, tour dates, merch, and more!