Voyagers

A Novel

De: Meg Charlton

Narrado por: Michael Crouch

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"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

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. With many believing this could be first contact with extraterrestrial life, humanity holds its breath. 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 the long months of child stardom, of talk shows and sitcom cameos, forged a seemingly unbreakable bond between them—until the mystery behind their disappearance began to tear them apart.

Now, with the world on edge and the Signal growing stronger, Alex is drawn back to the one person who might have answers. Ana—now a professional advocate for experiencers of extraterrestrial contact—is leading a retreat near Palm Springs, a stone’s throw from the site of their childhood disappearance. As the former best friends tentatively reunite, what starts as a quest to confront the reality of their original 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.

With the imaginative scope and propulsive 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.

Fascinating and mysterious.

This creative story flows as children grow up trying to understand what they believed was an early alien experience. All of this is happening while the world is caught up by mysterious signals from space. The fascinating mystery unfolds to a surprising end. I might have seen the clever clues throughout, but I missed them. Well done!

Unsure

Eh i struggled to get through this. Story was unique but slow and the reader was not that great.

Brilliantly Written

What an amazing story! Everything was woven together from start to finish like an exquisite tapestry. I need a part two asap; and a movie (or limited series) made!

The end pulled it all together

Eloquent writing. Interesting story. Unpacks complex characters and provokes challenging thought exercise into believability of memories, childhood, government and extraterrestrial encounters. Kudos to the author for concocting this quest.

So Boring

This book goes on and on and says hardly anything, Also the readers voice is very annoying and shouldn't be reading a book.