The Space Between

There is evidence to suggest when a child loses a parent, the child changes. Real, biologically measurable change, down to the DNA. Why? How does it affect a child's future? Their potential for finding happiness? Can it be overcome? The Space Between, a coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s grapples with this question.

Twenty-one-year-old Will Carlisle, a senior in college, feels increasingly broken. For years everything he touches crumbles. Worst of all, he can't make the things work that he cares most about: Relationships with girls, with his best friend, his college track and field career. Is it fallout, from losing her? Or is he just crazy? Unstable? Defective, all on his own?

He hopes life will improve when he begins dating Ann, a bright, spontaneous girl who sees the best in him. He wants to take things further with her, but how? At the end of a date with Ann, he yearns to tell her what she means to him and take that next dangerous step into a deeper relationship, but anxiety and fear overcome him and he flees her apartment.

As he frantically walks home through a dark and foggy night, he is knocked unconscious while crossing the street. What happens next may hold the key to reverse his losing streak, if he will let it. Join Will in a "life flashing before his eyes" experience as he relives the fun, the wonder, the exhilaration, the confusion, and the pain of growing up. Navigate the minefields of youth with him as he, with the help of an oddly familiar therapist, learns the difference between mere existence and truly living.