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Eternity is unimaginably other. It is so other that we can't even begin to wrap our minds around it, let alone understand it. It remains the ultimate mystery, the intractable unknown and unknowable. However, now and then, we are able to catch glimpses, or the hints of glimpses, of it. Often these epiphanies go unrecognized. Sometimes they are only suspected to have taken place. Now and then, they are recognized for what they are, if only intuitively.

The generation ship New Mayflower nears the end of her voyage and the end of her tether. Disaster looms ahead as surely as the ship's destination. The murder of Isham Ellis's charismatic grandfather holds the key to the fate of the nearly two million souls aboard. But why murder an old man? A farmworker who taught people about topsoil? Out of revenge? Out of fear? Or did the murderer have a larger target in mind? Important questions. But before Isham can answer them, he must decide whether or not to allow an enigmatic waitress to attend his grandfather's funeral.

Has anyone ever made you feel like you weren't normal? As Ingrid finds out, the only people who think gay life isn't normal are the weirdos themselves! One day at the playground, the class mean girl, Veronica, shouted, "Ingrid is a freak!" with her snotty friends. Why? Because Ingrid has two dads. When Ingrid makes the mistake of pushing Veronica, the school principal decides not to punish her but make Ingrid write a journal exploring why her dads are as normal as any other parents.