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.