Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana6/19/2023 ![]() In the other arc of the novel, Tara begins to find that she’s not as lost without her best friend Meg as she thought. ![]() The discovery of Terra Nova has real-life effects on Tara’s life, as her mother becomes obsessed with the idea that there could be an alternate timeline on Terra Nova in which her own parents didn’t die, creating no end of strife for Tara and her father. In fact, the world soon realizes that Terra Nova, as it’s called, may be almost exactly like Earth – even down to the people that inhabit it.ĭon’t let the presence of an alien planet fool you – Mirror in the Sky is more teen drama than sci-fi extravaganza, and there’s nothing wrong with that! Author Aditi Khorana’s decision to set her chronicle of high school social travails against the backdrop of a world-changing news story is an artful stroke that allows Tara (and the reader) to weigh the significance of events in our day-to-day lives against what might be happening up in the cosmos. ![]() To make things more interesting, NASA has just intercepted a message from outer space confirming that there’s life on other planets. ![]() Tara Krishnan’s junior year of high school isn’t off to a great start: her best friend is spending the year studying abroad, meaning that Tara will be left alone to navigate the clique-filled halls of Brierly, where she’s never quite felt she fit in with her wealthy, mostly white classmates. ![]()
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