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SNATCHED

Snatched, May 2015
by David Saperstein

Infinite Words
336 pages
ISBN: 1593096461
EAN: 978-159309646
Kindle: B00LD1OG00
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"A mail order bride ad finds aliens as husbands"

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SNATCHED
David Saperstein

Reviewed by Debbie Wiley
Posted May 7, 2015

Science Fiction | Humor

Seventy-three year old Rosie Conlon loves playing pranks on her friends at the Catholic Ladies' Home, but this time her prank leads to a very unexpected twist. Rosie submits their names to a mail order bride ad, never realizing that the "distant locations" mentioned in the ad meant outer space! Six women disappear one day- only to reappear three years later. Even stranger, the elderly women are now young again and pregnant!

David Saperstein introduces readers to a whole host of quirky and fun characters in SNATCHED. After we meet most characters, we are given a quick glimpse into their backstory. At first, this was a little disconcerting as it pulled me out of the flow of the story but gradually I adjusted and looked forward to learning the history of each character.

SNATCHED is a zany, outrageous and heartwarming story about love, life, and second chances. Readers who enjoyed David Saperstein's Cocoon will appreciate SNATCHED. If you haven't read David Saperstein before, give SNATCHED a try as his blend of sci fi, aliens, and heart-tugging stories is unique and well worth reading.

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SUMMARY

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cocoon (which was made into an Academy Award–winning movie) comes a sci- fi adventure about family, love, and, in a universe teeming with life, deciding who and what are the aliens. Six single, semi-retired, β€œolder” women are inseparable friends. But their lives start to go haywire when mischievous Rosie submits her friends’ names to an ad soliciting β€œMail Order Brides for Farmers & Minersβ€”Distant Locations.” A few weeks later, as the six women are driving along a lonely beach road, their vehicle suddenly begins to shake, the sky grows dark, an eerie light envelops the van, and ZAPβ€”it’s gone! Exactly three years later, the van reappears on the same road. But this time, the women appear to be thirty years younger β€”and they’re all pregnant! The β€œdistant locations” advertised were, in fact, elsewhere in our galaxy. A process, required for deep space travel, has somehow reversed their aging. They are happy with their new lives. However, a universal law requires that babies of β€œmixed-mating” be born on the mother’s home planet, forcing their return. But as they re-adapt to life on earth, surprises and problems arise as they’re faced with a media circus, doctors, nurses, police, priests, and nuns, not to mention their new humanoid mates. In Saperstein’s wacky, comedic-drama tradition that’s out of this world, Snatched builds to an exciting, uplifting climax that celebrates life, love, and the universal condition known as family.

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