THE SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS: A Novel

Berkley/Penguin, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: AS NEW 2017 Berkley/Penguin hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Small red remainder dot bottom edges at spine is the reason this is listed "as new." Book clean and quite tight. CONTENT: When the world ends, where will you go? In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe-and in her own heart-when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories. All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that's left of the dead. Until a garbled message from Earth gives her hope that someone from her past might still be alive. Soon Jamie finds other survivors, and their ragtag group will travel through the vast reaches of space, drawn to the promise of a new beginning on Earth. But their dream will pit them against those desperately clinging to the old ways. And Jamie's own journey home will help her close the distance between who she has become and who she is meant to be. Reviewer: "Starting with the premise that this type of literature requires you to suspend a bit of rational thought and logic and just roll with the story; i easily slipped into this story and went along for the journey with the characters. This is far less an action story and far more a philosophical and spiritual journey..at least it was for me. The past of the story that most intrigued me and held me in the book was the characters own literal world building. Who belongs? Who doesn't? Who gets to decide, and WHY are you the one who decides? Who died and made you boss..literally???