A fantastical coming-of-age story involving love, loss, and found family, centered around a determined autistic heroine who refuses to make herself fit neatly into other peoples' space
Wherever she is, Olive has never quite fit in, and living in a dorm room for the first time is no exception. To get away from the bullies, annoying teachers, and her parents, Olive escapes alone into her own vast world of vivid landscapes and fantastical inventions-until she gets an unexpected visit from a mysterious astronaut.
Could the astronaut in her inner world be the same astronaut who recently crash-landed on earth without a trace? Night by night, Olive watches his health fade and becomes more and more certain that she has to take action. When no one believes that she knows how to save him, she joins forces with her plucky new roommate to unpack the clues from her inner world and venture on a journey to real-life countries she's never been to before-all to save an astronaut who, as far as she can recall, she's never met.
