Overview
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's fourteen-year-old daughter, a person who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble. Together, Chris, Becky, and Miea need to uncover a secret. The secret to why their worlds have joined at this moment. The secret to their purpose. The secret to the future. It is a secret that, when discovered, will redefine imagination for all of them. BLUE is a novel of trial and hope, invention, and rediscovery. It might very well take you someplace you never knew existed.
Reviews
A unique story with plenty to ponder and excite, Blue will prove moving and very hard to put down. -- Midwest Book Review Author Lou Aronica creates a world that manages to be both surreal and tangible. Reading this book is like experiencing a lucid dream with depth and detail that play on all five senses. -- Blogcritics Blue is an emotional, thought-provoking story that reaches in and squeezes the heart.... Blue made me cry and laugh. It enlivened my imagination and offered hope. This story is full of subtleties that tease the mind. I'm sure new wonders will come to light each time the story is read--it is a story to be enjoyed more than once. Becky and her Tamarisk Kingdom will be remembered long after the last words of Blue are read. -- Long and Short Reviews Take a trip with Lou Aronica that brings back your love of magic and everything it can make possible as you immerse yourself in his thought-provoking, creative novel, Blue.... A story to remember and cherish, Blue and Lou Aronica have a few surprises in store that will leave you will wondering what if? Blue by talented Lou Aronica will become a resident of your keeper shelf, a book to pull out and read again and each time you will find something more in its pages. -- Single Titles
""A unique story with plenty to ponder and excite, Blue will prove moving and very hard to put down.""-- ""Midwest Book Review"" ""Author Lou Aronica creates a world that manages to be both surreal and tangible. Reading this book is like experiencing a lucid dream with depth and detail that play on all five senses.""-- ""Blogcritics"" ""Blue is an emotional, thought-provoking story that reaches in and squeezes the heart.... Blue made me cry and laugh. It enlivened my imagination and offered hope. This story is full of subtleties that tease the mind. I'm sure new wonders will come to light each time the story is read--it is a story to be enjoyed more than once. Becky and her Tamarisk Kingdom will be remembered long after the last words of Blue are read.""-- ""Long and Short Reviews"" ""Take a trip with Lou Aronica that brings back your love of magic and everything it can make possible as you immerse yourself in his thought-provoking, creative novel, Blue.... A story to remember and cherish, Blue and Lou Aronica have a few surprises in store that will leave you will wondering ""what if?"" Blue by talented Lou Aronica will become a resident of your keeper shelf, a book to pull out and read again and each time you will find something more in its pages.""-- ""Single Titles""
"""A unique story with plenty to ponder and excite, Blue will prove moving and very hard to put down.""-- ""Midwest Book Review"" ""Author Lou Aronica creates a world that manages to be both surreal and tangible. Reading this book is like experiencing a lucid dream with depth and detail that play on all five senses.""-- ""Blogcritics"" ""Blue is an emotional, thought-provoking story that reaches in and squeezes the heart.... Blue made me cry and laugh. It enlivened my imagination and offered hope. This story is full of subtleties that tease the mind. I'm sure new wonders will come to light each time the story is read--it is a story to be enjoyed more than once. Becky and her Tamarisk Kingdom will be remembered long after the last words of Blue are read.""-- ""Long and Short Reviews"" ""Take a trip with Lou Aronica that brings back your love of magic and everything it can make possible as you immerse yourself in his thought-provoking, creative novel, Blue.... A story to remember and cherish, Blue and Lou Aronica have a few surprises in store that will leave you will wondering ""what if?"" Blue by talented Lou Aronica will become a resident of your keeper shelf, a book to pull out and read again and each time you will find something more in its pages.""-- ""Single Titles"""
Author Information
Lou Aronica is the author of the USA Today bestselling novel The Forever Year and the national bestsellers Blue, When You Went Away, The Journey Home, and Leaves. He collaborated on the New York Times nonfiction bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element (both with Sir Ken Robinson) and Limitless (with Jim Kwik), the USA Today bestseller The Greatest You (with Trent Shelton) and the national bestseller The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille). Aronica is a long-term book publishing veteran, and he is a past president of the writers organization Novelists Inc. He is the father of four children and lives with his wife in Stamford, CT.
