Disguised as human, the Tran family takes over Starrgate Donut and begins to find a place in their local community. Lan Tran has brought her family to earth to escape the Endplague which is slowly destroying her home in the Galactic Empire.
She never dreams that she is about to find a teacher instead. to find someone she met once, who seemed supportive. If anyone sees her, will they accept her violin playing, or will they only see her appearance and hurl more hateful comments? Finally, Katrina takes her 'go bag' and escapes, riding the bus to L.A. She scrapes together money for her hormonal treatments by doing porn chats online, putting up with 'clients' that call her a freak but also find her alluring, but what Katrina really wants is to play her violin to create beautiful music based on video game soundtracks.
Neither parent can accept the fact that Katrina is transgender. Her father gets drunk and hits her and her mother.
Katrina Nguyen can no longer stand it at home. And now she thinks she has found the seventh. Shizuka Satomi, once a brilliant violinist, now a feared and legendary violin teacher known as the Queen of Hell, has traded her soul to the Devil, but she has an escape clause: If she can deliver the souls of seven of her best students to her demon-in-charge Tremon Phillipe, Shizuka herself will be able to walk free.
When was the last time I read a book this mind-blowingly original? Light from Uncommon Stars takes elements of different familiar story lines - a deal with the Devil, aliens from outer space living among us, and the all-too-real struggles of a young trans woman trying to survive abuse and rejection - and combines them into something completely new, jarring, unexpected and beautiful, much like the Bartók sonata around which the plot revolves.
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