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A gripping coming-of-age book with a murder at its heart and a heroine as remarkable as Harper Lee's Scout. Light from a Distant Superstar is the moving and powerful history of innocence and betrayal told in the endearingly sensible tone of 13-year-old Nellie Peck. It is early summer, and her loved father's business is faltering. Her mother must get back to work, and Nellie's aged 50 % sister has launched a troubling search for her birth daddy. Forced to take care of her shy more youthful brother, Nellie is determined to make him-and herself-toughen up. Three strangers enter in Nellie's covered life: mystical and brutish Utmost Devaney works in her grandfather's junkyard, the thieving Bucky Saltonstall has just arrived from New York City, and Dolly Bedelia, a stripper who rents the small apartment in the rear of the Pecks' house, becomes the titillating concentrate of Nellie's eavesdropping. Nellie is justly pleased with her own infallible lie detector until violence erupts in her young life and she is silenced by fear and scandal. The truth, as she is convinced it, is stunning and unthinkable, and with everyone's sight riveted on her behalf in the courtroom, Nellie confirms herself compromised by moral misunderstanding. No one will listen, no one is convinced her, and a man's life hangs in the total amount. A sensational evocation of innocence lost, Light from a Distant Superstar stands as one of the most engaging books yet from the best-selling writer of Songs in Common Time.
