A review by abij
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

'She gave one final smile as the wheels touched down on the tarmac in Singapore, still just the first stage, remarking that the original science-fiction story - the impossible adventure full of wonder and awe - was merely the existence of the species, all the moments she and her sister and their family and every other living person had shared.' p. 455

'A family is a group of strangers with a destructive desire for common nostalgia. We had privileged access to so much of each other's life, our early life in particular, but I'm not sure we ever really knew what to do with that.' p. 464