A stunning debut novel about love, guilt and forgiveness. If you loved  Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts  by Josie Shapiro, you will adore T he Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds. Thea, a young woman crippled by guilt, flees to Central America to escape her life. In Guatemala, she meets the charismatic Chris and his partner, Sarah, and the three of them form a tight bond. But everything changes when a tragedy occurs. Thea soon finds herself in a new relationship, bonded to her partner by grief. Together they do their best to start over in Hobart, but when tragedy strikes again - bringing up unanswered questions for Thea - she realizes that if she wants to know the truth, she will need to come clean about her past.