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 and his college studies. 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. What happens next may hold the key to reverse his losing streak, if he will let it.