The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta

(Titan Books, 2022)

Reviewed by Dave M. Roberts

When Lumi travels back to Mars after a break, she is to meet up with her spouse Sol who has been working on a major clandestine project. This doesn’t go to plan, as Sol doesn’t show up at the hotel as expected. The only clues that Lumi has are a few short and faintly cryptic messages from Sol, implying their work is proving more demanding than expected but they should meet up shortly. Told as an epistolary novel, the bulk of the narrative consists of letters from Lumi to Sol, exploring the possibilities of what has happened to them. At the same time, she is going back over their relationship in an effort to understand what may have happened, but possibly just as importantly why.

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