Lydia Netzer is an American novelist.
Her
debut novel
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''Shine Shine Shine'' was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012 by ''
The New York Times
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''. The book tells the story of a pregnant woman with
alopecia
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, her
astronaut
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husband, their
autistic
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son, and her mother, who is dying from cancer. The song ''Shine'' by
Carbon Leaf
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provided inspiration for the book's title.
Netzer's second novel, ''How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky'', is about a pair of astrophysicists destined (through their mothers' planning) to fall in love.
"Written in the Stars"
''The New York Times'', August 15, 2014.
Books
*''Shine, Shine, Shine'', St. Martin's Press
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, 2012
*''Everybody's Baby: A Novella'', St. Martin's Press, 2014
*''How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky'', St. Martin's Press, 2014
References
External links
Lydia Netzer's website
American women novelists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
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