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Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

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Interesting Facts about Space

A Novel

by Emily Austin

Narrator Natalie Naudus

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Length 8 hours 25 minutes

Language English

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Bookseller recommendation

“Emily Austin’s protagonists are singularly relatable and beautifully flawed. I think many readers will see themselves in Enid, a true crime obsessed, queer woman who struggles with relationships and lives inside her head a lot. This book is so readable, hilarious, powerful, and hopeful. ”
— Olivia • Author's Note

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“Stellar! Austin has you laughing, crying, and cringing all at the same time.”
— Kristine • Buttonwood Books and Toys

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“Emily Austin is the author for lesbian stories that explore mental health issues! Her writing is so funny, and relatable, I want to absolutely devour every word she’s written. I love Enid and I know queer women everywhere will too!”
— Hannah Cloutier • Bookery Manchester

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“Quirky, fascinating, and relatable slice-of-life story circulating a smattering of neurodivergence and mental health issues. Loved the narrator for this particular novel.”
— Ashley • Whale’s Tale Books & Gifts

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“Delightfully real. A much welcome reminder that we are not going to have it all figured out– be kind to yourself! Also it's okay to be terrified of bald men. Every 20 something should read this ASAP! ”
— Kenzie • The Bookmatters

Bookseller recommendation

“There is so much life in this book--for those of us who never quite fit in, who have always been a little convinced that deep down, we're terrible. This book is deep and witty and funny and sad, and I loved it from the first page to the last.”
— Frederick • Oblong Books

Summary
About the author

A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

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 Space effortlessly shows us the power of revealing our secret shames, the most beautifully human parts of us all.

Fiction LGBTQIA+ Fiction Fiction - Literary

Emily Austin is the author of We Could Be Rats, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space, and the poetry collection Gay Girl Prayers. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.