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Reviewed by: Heather Maneiro, High School Librarian Title: The Space Between Here and Now
Author: Sarah Suk
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Year: 2023 Good for Grades: 9-12 Genre/Type of Book: Fantasy
Content Warnings, or things that other School Librarians should be aware of: None
Recommended for a school library: Yes Reason(s) for choosing the book: Cybils Speculative Fiction nominee
If you were tasked by the publisher with writing a short quote for the back cover of this book, what would it be:
Is searching for your truth worth losing your family?
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Review:
Abstract and Mini-Review
Aimee is coming to terms with her diagnosis of Sensory Time Warp Syndrome (STWS) as her symptoms and episodes increase. With STWS a specific sense, for Aimee it is smell, pulls the sufferer into another dimension to relive the memory the sense has evoked. As Aimee’s episodes increase, she has additional ponderings on her symptoms and starts to wonder what truly happened when her mother left them. Aimee then decides to defy her father, book a trip to Korea, and find out more about her disorder, her memories, and the truths of her family. In doing so, she may “find” her mother, but is it worth losing her father in the process?
Recommendation Justification
Publishers Weekly Starred Review and Cybils Speculative Fiction nominee
Uses in the Library/Classroom
Interesting parallels to this and No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub – another speculative fiction title for this year. Both could perhaps be reading circle choices with I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C. F. Rogers as understanding first generation American students and cultural backgrounds/influences.
Appropriateness of Artwork
The broken glass cover image evokes so many similar images and the choice of the coral cover makes it different enough to be unique and really drawing.
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