Frankfurt Book Fair 2017: With No Single Big Book, Multiple Memoirs Steal the Show

The title that some insiders said spoke most profoundly to what they believe readers want right now, namely stories that inspire hope, was Seager's The Smallest LightsHandy site which provides links to 7,500 US publishers' sites and online catalogues. www.lights.com/publisher/ in the Universe, which Rachel Klayman at Crown bought in a North American rights acquisition. An MIT professor and expert on exoplanets-her work focuses on proving the existence of life elsewhere in the galaxy-Seager lost her husband to cancer, suddenly, just before turning 40. Struggling as a widow and newly-minted single mother to two young children, she found salvation in a local widows support group. Mollie Glick at Creative Artists said the book explores the notion that "our understanding of the cosmos and our understanding of love and loss are twin quests."