Sarah Van Name

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These Bodies Between Us

A wistful coming-of-age story with a haunting twist about four friends who spend their summer learning to become invisiblebut 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, theyre 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 theyre going to learn how to make themselves invisible.

Callie thinks its a ridiculous, impossible plan. But the other girls are intoxicated by the thought of disappearing, even temporarilyfrom 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 its getting harder to come back to themselves and do they even want to?