The Long Listen

Some messages take a lifetime to arrive. This one took fifty years.

Eleven-year-old Maya has spent her whole life waiting for things that are far away. Her mom is on a research ship, at the bottom of the world. Her dad is a question nobody answers, leaving behind only an old cipher wheel and a note about an umbrella. So when Maya moves in with her grandfather Elias, a retired linguist who talks to the stars more than he talks to people, she expects a quiet, lonely year.

Then Farlight wakes up...