The Spaces Between Us
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But Grimshaw is dead, so that means I have to do it.
acknowledgments
Thank you to the many friends, readers, and fellow travelers for reading, commenting, encouraging, and generally hanging in over the course of the creation of this book. To Cowboy, the taxi driver in St. Louis who squired me to the Chain of Rocks Bridge on the fourth of July and gave me some of the best lines in the book. To my students over the years for getting me to teach what I needed to learn. To my family for being such good storytellers. To the people of the Mohawk Valley of New York State. To the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for their early support. And, most especially, to Wayland.
Thank you to my agent Sorche Fairbank for finding the book such a good home. A thank you to Christy Ottaviano for seeing the story’s potential, to Jessica Anderson for helping shape the book, and to them both for their belief in it. And thank you to the rest of the team at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.
About the Author
Stacia Tolman is a writer and freelance editor whose work has appeared in the Keene Sentinel and the Massachusetts Review, among other publications. She won a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts grant for fiction, based on an early excerpt of The Spaces Between Us. A former prep school English teacher, Stacia lives in New Hampshire. You can sign up for email updates here.
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contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by Stacia Tolman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tolman, Stacia, author.
Title: The spaces between us / Stacia Tolman.
Description: First edition. | New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. | “Christy Ottaviano Books.” | Summary: Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018039241 | ISBN 978-1-250-17492-5 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Coming of age—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T6238 Sp 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039241
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First hardcover edition, 2019
eBook edition, July 2019
eISBN 9781250174932