Washoe County Library System

"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...

Traveling to a cosmic lighthouse on planet Quietus in order to find their literary hero, new parents Marko and Alana are chased by a host of pursuers.