How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel Audiobook

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• “A powerful reinvention of the love story—sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes glorious, but always truly original.”

  — Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author 

• “Two star-crossed stargazers twinkle in Lydia Netzer’s spritely How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Lydia Netzer’s second novel, the antically inventive, often outrageously funny How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky is set in a world that’s pretty different from ours…Netzer’s fans are likely to be quite entertained by this second charmingly weird novel of hers that grapples with big questions. Is love written in the stars? Where does inspiration come from? Who decides our fates? Netzer’s wise answer: ‘The most important things are mysteries.’”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Winning…Two flawed souls whose love is as quarky as it is quirky. They make this summer valentine bittersweet, showing us the redemptive power of love as a truly cosmic force.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Netzer’s sophomore effort may be even stronger than her excellent debut…Readers will be unable to stop thinking about this book, stunning in its poignancy, long after the last page has been read.”

  — Romantic Times (4½ gold stars, Top Pick)

• “Here is a diverting romp through two generations of well-intentioned friends and lovers as Netzer tells the story of übernerds Irene Sparks and George Dermont and explores the concept of soul mates…Fabulous.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Netzer’s poetic storytelling results in a surreal yet believable tale of two lives intertwined more than they could have realized. As in the author’s first novel, the imaginative characters are full of eccentricities, adding a touch of humor to a story that’s also tinged with remorse and regret. Recommended for all literary fiction fans.”

  — Library Journal

• “Lydia Netzer has a refreshing way of looking at the world that captivates me…In her novels, she combines math, magic, and science in a unique alchemy that gives us an entirely new kind of love story. In How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky, she writes about ‘twin souls who collide and love each other forever.’ I urge you, dear reader, to collide with this book. It may just change the way you think about love.”

  — David Abrams, author of Fobbit

• “Narrator Joshilyn Jackson is well suited to conveying the book's inherent sense of wonder.

  — Library Journal