Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she's not listening to her favorite true crime podcasts on a loop, she's serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she's trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father. When she unwittingly plunges into her first serious romantic entanglement, Enid starts to believe that someone is following her.

As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her. Because at the end of the day there's only one person she can't outrun herself.

Brimming with quirky humor, charm, and heart,Interesting Facts about Spaceeffortlessly shows us the power of revealing our secret shames, the most beautifully human parts of us all. (Atria Books)

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Emily Austin is a writer based in Ottawa who studied English literature and library science at Western University. She is also the author of the novelEveryone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

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