Every 15 years, a fleet of ships returns to a rural farming planet to gather goods for the rest of humankind, which is spread through a handful of space stations and city-planets. As the ships use wormholes to travel, the trip takes place every eight months for Nia, captain of one of the ships, who sees people age rapidly between visits. When a boy mysteriously appears on the planet, one genius woman sees him not as an oddity, but as the potential key to instantaneous travel. She enlists Nia and her crew to keep the boy safe until such time as her theories prove true.
Told in episodic lovely prose, this story ties together regret, longing, loneliness, love, family, and suffering across time and space. I'd recommend this for fans of literary science fiction rather than diehard fans of the genre, as Jimenez's language deserves to be mulled over rather than torn through. It leaves a lot to consider, well after the last page.
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