A Scatter of Light

Malinda Lo

A Scatter of Light is a companion novel to the National Book Awards winner and New York Times bestseller Last Night at the Telegraph Club and is about how the threads of family inspiration art and identity are woven across generations.

Aria Tang West thought she'd be spending one last summer on Martha's Vineyard with her friends before starting MIT in the fall where she intends to study astronomy like her late grandfather. But after topless photos of her are posted online she's abruptly uninvited from her friends' summer homes.

Aria's parents a writer and opera singer with plans of their own send Aria to stay with her artist grandmother Joan West in Northern California. Although Aria has never been attracted to girls before she finds herself drawn to Joan's gardener Steph Nichols an aspiring musician a few years older than Aria. The only problem? Steph isn't single; she lives with her girlfriend Lisa. But the chemistry between Aria and Steph seems undeniable and this will be a summer that will turn her world upside down.