In the Margins Book Club: The Space Between Worlds

Wed Apr 09 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-04:00

Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground | Brookline

Boston University Howard Thurman Center
Publisher/HostBoston University Howard Thurman Center
In the Margins Book Club: The Space Between Worlds
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Come discuss the award-winning novel The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
About this Event

In the Margins is back!

The HTC's student-run book club has made a great selection for its second book of the spring semester: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.

Come to our kickoff event, learn more about this novel, and meet other interesting engaged readers in our community.

In the Margins focuses on modern, relatable books from authors with an important point of view. The discussion topics are timely and start great conversations. Come join us!


More about The Space Between Worlds:
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.
WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD •Gorgeous writing, mind-bending world-building, razor-sharp social commentary, and a main character who demands your attention—and your allegiance.”—Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—NPR, Library Journal, Book Riot
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world but the entire multiverse.

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Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline, United States

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