An astrophysicist, Dr. Mikayla Johnson, uncovers evidence from the Voyager spacecrafts that an enormous object of some type will crash into Earth. Jim Hardgray lives in Oklahoma, and his estranged teenage daughter is visiting. No matter what he does to try to make amends, it only makes her angrier. The possible meteor’s trajectory that Johnson discovered leads directly to Hardgray’s backyard. When others in the scientific community and government realize that what’s coming is actually a vessel, it provides the world with an opportunity for first contact with an alien species. But when a communication with the object produces a sound like screaming demons scratching long nails on a chalkboard, it quickly becomes evident that what is about to crash is beyond human understanding. Real-life theoretical physicist Michio Kaku once compared mankind meeting beings from another world to humans trying to teach ants about the internet—it’s impossible to comprehend a species so truly unlike anything we have ever imagined. Wilson combines the best classic alien films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Arrival, with the glue that holds even dysfunctional families together, the strength of love and heritage. Readers will not think about our place in the cosmos the same way again.
