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Marie-Helene Bertino: Beautyland (Hardcover, english language, 2024, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, …

Really great read, finished 95% of it on a travel day and finally did the last bit. I wish I had written down good quotes because there are so many, but alas, traveling and I didn’t have any of my normal stuff. All you need to know is alien sent to earth (and raised as a human) to observe humanity and report back. Took me longer than average to slip into the flow of the prose but was more than worth the effort.