Celestial Lights, Cecile Pin (Henry Holt 978-1-250-86349-2, $26.99, 256pp, hc) March 2026. In the beautifully written and achingly realistic Celestial Lights, author Cecile Pin takes readers along on astronaut Oliver Ines’s deep space mission. The problem is that the voyage will take over ten years, and Oliver is recently married with a young son. Celestial Lights is such a gorgeous title – the journey across Oliver’s life and into his heart is so immense – that readers will feel they know him on an intimate level. Colleen Mondor COLLEEN MONDOR, Contributing Editor, is an aviation journalist specializing in Alaska.