We all learn in early childhood which people form our family and what links connect us to each of them. All of us except the protagonist of this novel, who was never told that she, too, used to have a family at some point in her life. What happened over the years for every single trace of that time to disappear? The Astronauts tells of the deciphering of this ecosystem lost in time: a photograph found by chance, which depicts a little girl with her parents, throws light on the reality of her family thirty-five years too late. But, most importantly, it throws light on the voids, the silences and the secrets on which she was forced to construct her identity. However, a story never tells the truth, merely a truth…. Laura Ferrero uses autobiographical fact as the starting point to create moving, and sometimes heart-breaking, fiction, about -