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Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel

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Lightbreakers

A Novel

Aja Gabel

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · November 4, 2025

Reading lane: Time Travel Fiction

A Belletrist Book Club Pick One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: LA Times , Harper's Bazaar, LitHub, The Millions “Riveting . . .

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Why It Works

A moody genre blend that keeps the mechanics and feelings in motion.

Come here for

  • time-bending, grief-touched suspense
  • a literary sci-fi setup with room to think

Expect

  • crime-noir pressure
  • book-club conversation without the homework

Book Details

Authors
Aja Gabel
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
November 4, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Time Travel Fiction · Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
Reading lane
Time Travel Fiction

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • Literary Fiction

  • Time Travel Fiction

  • Family Life

About This Book

A Belletrist Book Club Pick One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: LA Times , Harper's Bazaar, LitHub, The Millions “Riveting . . . Lightbreakers is a marvel. . . propulsive and unforgettable.”– Washington Post “You will love this genre-busting book. . . A beautiful meditation of grief, time, and love.” –Samin Nosrat What would you give to relive the past? Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy m...

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A Belletrist Book Club Pick One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: LA Times , Harper's Bazaar, LitHub, The Millions “Riveting . . . Lightbreakers is a marvel. . . propulsive and unforgettable.”– Washington Post “You will love this genre-busting book. . . A beautiful meditation of grief, time, and love.” –Samin Nosrat What would you give to relive the past? Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over it: Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four. When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in a dangerous experiment that could result in something he thought impossible: seeing his daughter again. Meanwhile, Maya embarks on a journey back to her own past in Japan, and to a formative lover who once shattered her heart. As Noah and Maya grapple with hope and despair, new information emerges that the experiments might not be exactly what they seems. A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where time is both a healer and a thief.

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