These Bodies Between Us
$27.61
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2024
Summary
This wistful coming-of-age story with a speculative twist follows four friends who spend their summer learning to become invisible—but disappearing comes at a cost.
Four girls. Four girls skating home, both sides of the road, fearless. Four girls at the mouth of an infinite ocean, sugared and salted with sand and seawater, the tide licking their sunburned feet.
This summer, they’re going to disappear.
For seventeen-year-old Callie and her best friend Talia, every summe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593810453 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593810457 |
| Author: | Sarah Van Name |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Delacorte Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“A lusciously crafted and achingly poignant story about girlhood with a haunting twist that readers will savor. You won’t soon forget it.”—Kathleen Glasgow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces
“Spellbinding… Readers might be tempted to disappear alongside this kaleidoscopic foursome.“—K.L. Walther, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules
“A gorgeous, wistful meditation on the pleasure and pain of adolescent girlhood, friendship, and the magic of summer.“—Dahlia Adler, author of Cool for the Summer
“An absolutely stunning exploration of the invisibility and heartbreak of being a teenage girl. I literally couldn’t put it down.“—Nita Tyndall, author of Who I Was with Her
★ “A beautiful and sometimes haunting narrative that will appeal to readers of both realistic and fantasy fiction.” —School Library Journal, starred review
“A suspenseful story of friendship and magic.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Haunting.” —Publishers Weekly
”[T]his evocative summer novel has precisely the right blend of haunting fantastical elements and down-to-earth realism as Van Name explores body dysmorphia, male-gaze culture, queerness in the South, and the unbreakable bond of teenage friendships.” —Booklist
About The Author
Sarah Van Name
Sarah Van Name grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and now lives and works in Durham with her family and dog. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Goodbye Summer (2019, a Junior Library Guild pick) and Any Place But Here (2021).
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