A Space Apart

About the Book

Willis fleshes out with warmth and tenderness the complexities of family love, which not only defines commitment but deepens the need. An important new talent.
-The Kirkus Reviews

This is the story of a broken family trying to mend itself through three generations. It is a painful but essential process, and like all such repair jobs, it is only partly successful. Before it is over we come to know John and Vera and Mary Kay, as well as Vera's daughters, Lee and Tonie-to understand the wars they must declare and the peaces that they are able to proclaim within the state of being Scarlins.
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

Willis views the Scarlin family ties and loyalties, limits and tensions, with realism, sensitivity and precision. A noteworthy first novel.
-Publisher's Weekly

About the Author

Meredith Sue Willis, a native of West Virginia, is the author of more than a dozen books, including fiction for adults like In the Mountains of America (Mercury House, 1994) and Oradell at Sea (West Virginia University Press, 2002) as well as novels for children and books about house to write.