Digging Stars A Novel

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

eBook - 2023

A National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection "Tshuma is nuanced yet explosive as she explores the intersection of science, identity and grief.... [A] smart, incisive novel." —Weike Wang, New York Times Book Review Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood. With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father's revolutionary work in Bantu geometries and Indigeno...us astronomies. A bona fide genius, he transformed the scientific landscape by fusing the best of Western and Indigenous scientific thought. Yet since his death during her childhood, Rosa has been plagued by... more