Daniel Babka’s Lightning Bugs and Aliens is the kind of indie novel that demonstrates exactly what independent publishing can do when it’s working well — a story too specific, too honest, and too genuinely multi-layered to fit into a neat marketing category, told by someone who actually lived adjacent to what he’s describing.
The dedication tells you something important: this book is for the son of Mississippi sharecroppers Babka grew up alongside on the back steps of his family’s tavern. The friendship and race themes aren’t contemporary calculation. They’re memory.
Five kids, summer 1960, looking for aliens and finding something more important. Straight-forward storytelling for ages 10 to adult — and the recommendation is genuine.
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