This month's book is The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, which has been described as both a captivating suspense thriller and a story of endurance and hope.

If you read last month's book and wanted to see what it would be like for humanity to make a different decision about how to face environmental catastrophe, and also what would happen if the mission intended to save humanity became a pressure cooker of disaster and suspicion, then this is your next recommended read. Who doesn't want to read a whodunit in space?

From the author's website:

It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.

Asuka already felt like an impostor before the explosion. She was the last picked for the mission, she struggled during training back on Earth, and she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left.

With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again.

Content warnings: miscarriage, fertility issues, terrorism, death of a child, racism, violence and gore, strong language

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