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The Lesson
A Publishers Weekly Pick of Top 10 Books for Spring 2019 in Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month for June 2019
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A BookBub Editors' Pick of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Summer
A Bookish Pick of 10 Out-of-This-World Sci Fi & Fantasy Reads for Summer
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A Bookish Pick of Best Book Cover Designs of the Month in Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Hollywood Reporter Pick of Hot Summer Books
A Library Journal Best Book of 2019 in Science Fiction & Fantasy
An iBooks bestseller in Science Fiction & Fantasy
Nominated for a 2019 Voice Arts Award
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 in Science Fiction
A 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year in Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Chicago Review of Books Pick of Best Small Press Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Books
A Polygon Pick of Best SSF Books of 2019
A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year
A 2019 Locus Recommendation
A 2020 Audie Award Finalist for Best Science Fiction Narration
2019 AAMBC Literary Award nominee
Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of 20 Books to Read If You Want to Get into Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award
Oprah Magazine Pick of 16 Books to Read to Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage
A BookRiot Pick of 10 Alien Books
An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last.
A year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witnesses and victims to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.
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