Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Psychological Fiction)

Let’s gather on a sunny Saturday morning, taste some rich coffee and yummy pastries and talk about this literary science-fiction . . . A wonder . . . as tender and intimate as it is conceptually courageous. This is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe.

The book follows Adina, who is sent by aliens before birth to find out if they could live on earth and reports to them via a fax machine. The book starts with Adina's birth, which takes place in 1977 when Voyager 1 was launched.