For readers who are drawn to the unconventional, this will be a satisfying read.” - Kirkus Reviews

The characters' resilience and vulnerability are deftly handled. “Touches on sexual identity, friendship, nontraditional families, and the price of human space exploration. This book is starlight on broken concrete, it's flowers on a broken rooftop, and it's a masterpiece.” -Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart a Doorway It's a YA romance about girls and stars and friendship and mercy and loss and regret and what we owe each other and what we give away to lift each other up. “ The Weight of the Stars is one of the most gentle, gracious, and, overall, kind books that I've read all year. Ancrum, written with the same style of short, micro-fiction chapters and immediacy that garnered acclaim for her debut, The Wicker King. The Weight of the Stars is the new LGBT young adult romance from K. And now it’s up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the girls are brought together despite themselves-and Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria’s mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system.Įvery night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the “wrong” side of town. Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances

The weight of the stars by k ancrum