VALENTINE'S DAY IN MIDDLE AMERICA.

Judith Elliott fixes breakfast for her affluent suburban family. She kisses them all goodbye, tends to the house, makes plans for later with her husband.

Then comes the news: her teenage son, Lucas, has taken a gun to school. He has killed two other students, a teacher, and himself.

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Kali VanBaale's award-winning first novel examines the aftermath of this modern nightmare with a clear-eyed dramatic precision that will leave readers wondering what does indeed lurk in the dark, unknowable spaces that exist between even the most loving of family members.

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"The Space Between is a heart-rending, unflinching, lyrically powerful look into events both extraordinary and familiar, and an exploration of a family's collective soul--how it trembles and aches and struggles to recover. By poignantly rendering the characters' lives, what VanBaale reveals is as shocking as it is comforting: the space between us is an illusion, so we're all in this together." 

—Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This

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