Lydia Netzer at Smartmouth Brewing Co.

Lydia Netzer

How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

Reading and Book Signing 

Tuesday July 1st, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.     

Location: Smartmouth Brewing Co.

1309 Raleigh Ave, Norfolk

Lydia Netzer's first novel Shine Shine Shine was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Slate.com Book of the
Year, and aNew York Times Notable Book. Her new
novel is How to Tell Toledo from the Night Skyspectacularly crafted and devastating original love story.

Beyond the skyline of Toledo
stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, the nation's premier center of
astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far
and wide. One of these is George Dermont, a dreamer and a man of deep faith,
who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God, and speaks
to ancient gods and believes they speak back. The Institute's newest star is
Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's
work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be
a scientist's dream come true, but it's particularly poignant for Irene who has
been in self-imposed exile from Toledo and her estranged alcoholic mother,
Bernice. When Bernice dies unexpectedly, Irene resolves to return to Toledo,
and sets in motion a series of events which place George and Irene on a
collision course with love, destiny and fate.

You see, George and Irene were
born to be together. Literally. Their mothers, friends since childhood, hatched a
plan to get pregnant together, raise the children together and then separate them so as
to become each other's soulmates as adults. Can true love exist if engineered
from birth? 

About the Author: Lydia Netzer was born in
Detroit and educated in the Midwest. She spent many nights, dark and bright, in
Toledo, Ohio, but now lives in Norfolk with her husband and children.

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Hardcover, $25.99

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