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• A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart

  Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War erainspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chicks origin story.

  Debbies never had to make anything up before and she isnt starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbies own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipmans Corners a Rust Belt town voted by Popular Science magazine as most likely to be nuked she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone shed ever loved as well as her own past in the process.

  Or so she believes . . . Present-day Debbie is addicted to lorazepam and dirty, wet martinis, making her an unreliable narrator, at best. A time-bending novel that delves into the origin story of the Girl with No Past, Sputniks Children explores what it was like to come of age in the Atomic Age.

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• Growing up in the Niagara region during the Cold War, Terri Favro was told, If they drop the bomb, well be the first to go. Today she is a CBC Literary Prize finalist; author of the award-winning novella, The Proxy Bride; and co-creator of the Bella comic book series. Terri lives in Toronto, Ontario, and blogs at TerriFavro.ca.

• Published: April 2017

  ISBN: 9781770413412

  Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in.

  Pages: 360

Terri Favro captures a world that is equal parts filth, hope, humanity, lust, stainless steel and radioactive waste an alternate reality that is both enticingly different and alarmingly familiar. Tom Allen, author and broadcaster

What a ride! A novel that makes you believe anything is possible in life as we know it. Or life as we don’t know it. A trippy, time-bending romp, filled with heart, humour and faith. Brian Francis, author of Natural Order and Fruit

It’s not just Cold War Nostalgia, or the book’s one-of-a-kind genre bending, or how much fun this book sounds like it is. Instead, it’s all of that! We can’t wait. 49th Shelf

Favros time-travelling comic book adventure narrative is fast-paced and entertaining. This Magazine

A unique, quirky story involving a comic book writer, parallel universes and growing up in the time of the atomic bomb . . . this genre-bender is definitely worth a read! Lindsays Library

Exhilarating, so hard to put down, rich with comic book twists, explosions, villains, and familiar tropes that are fresh and surprisingly rendered. Its A Wrinkle in Time meets Wonder Woman with a literary twist of Madeline Soniks award-winning Cold War essay collection Afflictions and Departures. And easily one of my favourite books of 2017. Pickle Me This blog

It is a book so full of feeling, I thought that my heart would explode as I read it. I loved it. It comes with humour, insight, and cold war nostalgia as well. Its a really great novel. CBCs Ontario Morning

Sputnik Chicks origin story is fun a twist on pop culture and Cold War nostalgia, well paced with zero slack . . . Debbie is the girl with no past a tragic fate; but for a character, an interesting place to start. Globe and Mail

A paranoid yarn with literary flair and real feeling, Sputniks Children combines broken families, fractured timelines, comic book trivia and radioactivity into a delightful, explosive read. Dominik Parisien, author of The Starlit Wood

In this arresting debut novel, Favro (The Proxy Bride, 2012) has crafted a delightful, timey-wimey gem that manages to temper its phantasmagorical imagery with the authentic pain of losing everything that one loves . . . Favro walks an incredible narrative tightrope here, balancing present-day Debbie’s sad, inebriated reality with Atomic Mean Time Debbie’s frightening world of duck-and-cover exercises, DNA-enhanced twisties, and imminent nuclear threats . . . A noodle-bending literary sci-fi novel that puts its hero in the box with Schrdinger’s cat. Kirkus Reviews

Funny, touching, genre-bending, and one-of-a-kind, this is an exuberant romp of a novel that is nonetheless unafraid of serious subjects. Publishers Weekly

Youll love weaving your way through Debbies lorazepam- and martini-induced memories in this genre-bending ode to the unreliable narrator, with a touch of Cold War-era nostalgia thrown in for good measure. Canadian Living

Terri Favro can write. Her prose was layered, informative, wry, political, and it blew my frickin’ mind. A perfect balance of charming metaphors and witty one-liners, she blended facts with fiction to the point where I began to question my own reality. . . . I highly recommend Sputnik’s Children. Jennies Nails and Tales blog

Favro hits hard with political, feminist themes throughout, fearlessly bringing female sexuality and body image to the forefront. . . . There are no clear answers, but it seems as though thats how Favro wants it, and that approach is perfectly matched to the curious, smart worlds and parallel realities that co-exist in Sputniks Children. Hamilton Review of Books

A dizzying ride through the time-space continuum held together by comic books and quantum mechanics. . . Youll be turning pages faster than Space Shuttle Challenger in freefall. And if you read novels with a pen in your hand (like us), youll be underlining funny and clever passages throughout the book. SuperHeroNovels.com

An audacious experiment in unreliable narration . . .Sputniks Children is one of those rare novels that starts out as one thing, and ends up being something else altogether an impressive high-wire act that is also a cracking good story. Quill & Quire