When the Sky Looks Back

Amina Khalil has watched her ancestor Pearl Fujita's most famous night more than eleven hundred times, and now Pearl's face is beginning to disappear. On the Nair Ring, a rotating city of forty thousand people far above Earth, the Lens lets citizens view the past whenever the sky blazes. Faded photographs, vanishing ink, and her mother's slipping memory point Amina toward a hidden cost of looking. With the Ring's grand Centenary Watching days away, she has very little time to stop it.