Ten miles outside of Baltimore, Maryland, the Marley Station Mall has been turned into the Marley Station Experience Center. It’s still a mall, sort of, except you can’t physically buy anything. You can only experience the products. Purchasing happens later, online.
In the basement of the mall (which was originally a nuclear bomb shelter!) there is one rebel store where you can buy physical things: Mirona’s Miracles.
Here’s a copy of their most recent paper flyer:
A weird and revelatory debut that vividly captures the dislocation of growing up BIPOC and neurodivergent in a country awash in both conspiracy theories and genuine conspiracies.
"The invisible D in my name is my mother’s second most lasting contribution to my life."
‘Wayne Le—known as "Invisible-D 'Wayne" at school—has been invited to participate in a seemingly ordinary, innocuous adolescent health study by a prestigious university. The study has a few nice perks, but most important to ‘Wayne, is the opportunity to give his immigrant father an accomplishment to be proud of—something that's been in short supply since 'Wayne's mother left.
But the study quickly proves to be anything but ordinary and innocuous, and ‘Wayne, his best friend Kermit, and a fellow study participant named Jane (a girl who shall not be manic-pixied) find themselves sucked into an M. C. Escheresque maze of conspiracies that might be entirely in their heads or might truly be a sinister government plot.
Young Adult [Dutton, On Sale: May 27, 2025, Hardcover / e-Book , ISBN: 9780593698600 / eISBN: 9780593698624]
A. A. Vacharat is an author, illustrator, and web developer. She is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Art MFA program. Her books include elements of science, technology, and usually at least a little whimsy or absurdity. She includes characters that her child-self yearned to see—such as children with one Asian parent and autistic protagonists—and portrays worlds beyond those most often seen. This Moth Saw Brightness is her debut.
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