Idgie Says:You wake up after 3 days of devastating illness to discover you are alone. A superbug has taken out 99% of humanity. It traveled through the stars to all of the outpost planets, meaning the possible 1% of humanity is scattered throughout the galaxy. How do you feel? How do you act?
Jamie ran away from her home planet after the loss of a baby. She left her husband behind. Now she desperately needs to know if he also perhaps managed to survive. She must get back to Earth, but to do so she needs to depend on a motley group of people - who don't all have the same agenda.
The characters in this novel are well fleshed out, fully alive. Jamie isn't just dealing with the present, she continues to dwell over her past actions. This isn't a space story, this is a human story with space as the backdrop.
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The Space Between the Stars
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub Date
13 Jun 2017
General Fiction (Adult)
Description
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...
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...