These Bodies Between Us, Sarah Van Name
These Bodies Between Us, Sarah Van Name
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These Bodies Between Us

Author: Sarah Van Name

Narrator: Shannon Tyo

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2024


Synopsis

A wistful coming-of-age story with a haunting twist about 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 friends Talia and Cleo, every summer in their small North Carolina beach town is as steady as the tides. But this year, Cleo has invited enigmatic new girl Polly to join them, creating waves in their familiar friendship. And Cleo has an idea, gleaned from private YouTube videos and hidden message boards: they’re going to learn how to make themselves invisible.

Callie thinks it’s a ridiculous, impossible plan. But the other girls are intoxicated by the thought of disappearing, even temporarily—from bad boyfriends, from overbearing families, from the confusing, uncomfortable reality of having a body altogether. And, miraculously, it works.

Yet as the girls revel in their reckless new freedom, they realize it’s getting harder to come back to themselves… and do they even want to?

About The Author

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 three young adult novels: The Goodbye Summer, Any Place But Here, and These Bodies Between Us.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 11, 2023

I wrote this book and I'm pretty proud of it, so I'm giving it one star for each year I worked on it.......more

Goodreads review by Spiri on September 20, 2023

tw for eating disorder, abusive relationship, death I really liked this book, and it even has a playlist at the end! I didn’t really know what to expect from this, and at first the idea of people just suddenly turning themselves invisible seemed kinda stupid, and while the science behind it is never......more

Goodreads review by clara:) on March 21, 2024

es war schon fesselnd und hat eingeladen, weiterzulesen, aber die thematik hätte noch besser behandelt werden können? -die freundschaften waren schön und innig -ganz coole darstellung von beziehungen -kind of bi & lesbian representation -coming of age, letzte sommerferien vibes ich mochte callie und......more

Goodreads review by B on September 21, 2023

This is a book that stays with you. It’s inside my soul. I don’t even have words to describe how it made me feel. It’s magic and summer and nostalgia and youth and growing up and it has nothing to do with invisibility. I fucking loved it.......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on June 23, 2024

A great summer read! Set in a beach town in North Carolina four friends decide to create something magical for themselves that will make this summer the best yet. The author does such a wonderful job in embodying what it's like to be a teenage girl. Issues such as racism, dating abuse, anorexia, and......more


Quotes

“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

"A gorgeous, wistful meditation on the pleasure and pain of adolescent girlhood, friendship, and the magic of summer."—Dahlia Adler, author of Cool for the Summer

"An absolutely stunning exploration of the invisibility and heartbreak of being a teenage girl. I literally couldn’t put it down."—Nita Tyndall, author of Who I Was with Her

★ "A beautiful and sometimes haunting narrative that will appeal to readers of both realistic and fantasy fiction." —School Library Journal, starred review

"A suspenseful story of friendship and magic." —Kirkus Reviews

"Haunting." —Publishers Weekly

"[T]his evocative summer novel has precisely the right blend of haunting fantastical elements and down-to-earth realism as Van Name explores body dysmorphia, male-gaze culture, queerness in the South, and the unbreakable bond of teenage friendships." —Booklist