This Changes Everything (Ember)

This Changes Everything  (Spanners Series, I)
Sally Ember, 2013
Timult Books
334 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781310232428 (Kindle, free)


Summary
Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., 58, is having the first of many home visits from holographic representations of five beings from the Many Worlds Collective (MWC), a consortium of planet and star systems all around the multiverse, over a thirty-year, increasingly Utopian period.

Earth is being invited to join, formally, and the December, 2012, visit is the first one allowed to be made public. Making the existence of the MWC public means many Earthers have to adjust our beliefs and ideas about life, religion, culture, identity and, well, everything we think and are. Clara becomes the liaison for Earth, the Chief Communicator, between Earth and the MWC.

This Changes Everything relates the events partly from her point of view, partly from records of meetings of varying groups of the MWC governing bodies, and partly from her Media Contact, Esperanza Enlaces, employing humor, poignancy, a love story, family issues, MWC’s mistakes and blunders, history, politics, paranormalcy and hope.

This is Vol. I of the Spanners Series. Vol. II is This Changes My Family and My Life Forever (2014). Vol. III is This Is/Is Not the Way I Want Things To Change (2015).