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The Between

A Novel

Tananarive Due

Ages 16+

Readers rate it 4.0 (33 on Hardcover)

292 pages · Released Dec 13, 2011

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The Between parent’s guide: what’s inside

High confidence

LGBTQ+ themes

What it offers

Educational value

A note for parents

The Between is a sophisticated horror novel centered on psychological terror, racism, and family trauma rather than young-adult fiction. While it explores themes of protection and love, the pervasive supernatural dread, graphic nightmare sequences, hate crimes, and the protagonist's mental deterioration make it unsuitable for readers under 16. The book demands emotional maturity to process its darker elements and racial violence.

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From the publisher

“An extraordinary work of humane imagination . . . call it magic realism with soul.”—Locus “Finely honed . . . always engages and frequently surprises.”—New York Times Book Review A man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent forces in this brilliant novel of horror and the supernatural from th... “An extraordinary work of humane imagination . . . call it magic realism with soul.”—Locus “Finely honed . . . always engages and frequently surprises.”—New York Times Book Review A man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent forces in this brilliant novel of horror and the supernatural from the award-winning pioneer of speculative fiction and author of the classic My Soul to Keep. When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake. When Hilton's wife, the only elected African American judge in Dade County, Florida, begins to receive racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting his family. The demons lurking outside are matched by his internal terrors—macabre nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are these bizarre dreams the dark imaginings of a man losing his hold on sanity—or are they harbingers of terrible events to come? As Hilton battles both the sociopath threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy stalking his sleep, the line between reality and fantasy dissolves . . . Chilling and utterly convincing, The Between is the haunting story of a man desperately trying to hold on to the people and life he loves as he slowly loses himself.

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  • Fiction
  • Diverse Characters
  • Strong Character Development
  • Character driven
  • Unloveable Characters
  • A mix driven
  • Not Diverse Characters
  • Weak Character Development
  • dark
  • mysterious
  • tense
  • emotional

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ISBN 9780062120601 · Harper Collins

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