These Bodies Between Us

Sarah Van Name

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25 June 2024

Children's & young adult fiction & true stories; Young Adult Galaxy

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.

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 summer in their small North Carolina beach town is as familiar and steady as the tides. Their long-distance friend Cleo arrives from DC, and they spend their days lazing on the sand and their nights working at the local roller-skating rink. But this summer, Cleo has brought along Polly, an enigmatic girl who shakes up the dynamics of the group. And Cleo has a proposition, gleaned from private YouTube video tutorials and hidden message boards- They're going to learn how to make themselves invisible.

Callie thinks it's a ridiculous, impossible idea. But the other girls can't help but be intoxicated by the thought of disappearing, even just temporarily-from bad boyfriends, from overbearing families, from the confusing, uncomfortable reality of having a body altogether. When Callie gives in and they finally try it, miraculously it works.

Yet as the summer progresses and the girls revel in their reckless new freedom, they realize it's getting harder and harder to come back to themselves. And, for some of them, do they even want to?

By: Sarah Van Name
Imprint: Random US
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: International edition
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 356g
ISBN: 9780593810453
ISBN 10: 0593810457
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 25 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for These Bodies Between Us

"“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"