Synopsis
"A girl-centered Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century. "—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Two outcast best friends are desperate to survive senior year and break away from their dying factory town in Stacia Tolman's The Spaces Between Us, an unforgettable YA debut.
Serena Velasco and her best (and only) friend, Melody Grimshaw, are dying to get out of...
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21 July 2020
9781250250919Reviews
"Serena is a stunningly realistic and layered protagonist. Her story unfolds in remarkably sharp, vivid prose, and even the least sympathetic characters are rendered with thoughtful complexity. A girl-centered Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century. "—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Beautiful prose emphasizes complex themes of faith, the class system, and personal responsibility. With its impeccably developed characters and hard-hitting narrative, this is an essential purchase for teen and new adult collections."—School Library Journal, starred review
"Readers will be drawn by the plot details of high school life, a desperate road trip, and a tragic ending, while thematic wisdom comes in single lines. . . creating lingering questions and yielding insights thatwill have readers seeing their own situations differently long after the last page."—The Bulletin
"One of the best parts of the story is its sense of place, which is writ large. Small, broken towns don't get a lot of attention in youth books, but Tolman digs deep, exploring the people who live there, their nightmares as well as their dreams."—Booklist
