Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blond wig all come tumbling to the light. When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. But now they're parents to an autistic son. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be 'normal.' She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. Heart-tugging…it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human….Nicely unpredictable…Extraordinary.' -Janet Maslin, The New York Times And when an accident involving Maxon's rocket threatens everything they've built, revealing the things they've kept hidden, they discover nothing will ever be the same.'Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. As Sunny and Maxon are on the brink of destruction, at each other's throats with blame and fear, Maxon departs for the moon, where he's charged with programming the fledgling colony's robots. But with parenthood came a craving for normalcy that began to strangle their marriage and family. Theirs is a wondrous, strange relationship formed of dark secrets, long-forgotten murders and the urgent desire for connection. As her façade begins to unravel, we discover the singular world of Sunny and Maxon, two outcasts who found unlikely love in one another. Not only is she bald, but she's nothing like the Stepford wife she appears to be. But when a fender bender sends her blonde wig flying, her secret is exposed. Even her genius husband, Maxon, an astronaut on his way to the moon, has been trained to pass for normal. Sunny Mann has masterminded a perfect life for herself and her family in a quiet Virginia town.

A debut unlike any other, Shine Shine Shine is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human.

Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer