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by Mike Chen (Goodreads Author)

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Hi, I see Light Years From Home shelved as LGBT+, could someone tell me what rep it will have?

Andrea There's a light mention that Evie is attracted to a woman who works as part of the UFO network with her, and (if I recall correctly) implied at the en…moreThere's a light mention that Evie is attracted to a woman who works as part of the UFO network with her, and (if I recall correctly) implied at the end that she's going to try to start a relationship with her. But it's not so much "lgbt representation" as just kind of ambient "this world isn't compulsively heterosexual." There's not a relationship depicted on page, the book is almost entirely concerned just with the relationships between the family members.(less)

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Does Mike Chen ever tell the alien story or is the whole book about family relations and a sister that insists on being unreasonable? 120 pages in and it could have been condensed to 30 pages. If the author continues belaying the reader as if we read sci fi for emotional responses, then the book goes back and Chen gets removed.

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Danielle Katz I would guess Mid- teens. Contains some F bombs, but otherwise not gory, not scary and no sex.

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