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358 pages, Hardcover
First published September 18, 2018
“She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.”
“Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.”
She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that.
She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.Annabelle doesn’t know how to handle or cope with this grief. The only thing that she can think to do, the only thing that helps, is to run. So she does. She decides to run a half-marathon every day until she crosses the country. She is running from Seattle all the way to Washington DC and nothing can hold her back.
“It's the people who know you and love you that save you.”
Waiting is tricky, because any sort of empty time in her head fills with you-know-what and you-know-who. She will not say his name. He shouldn't get to have a name. She calls him The Taker. She calls him this becuase it is the essential truth, that he is the most evil sort of thief, and she calls him this because the words are tall and slender like The Taker himself, and because the name is shorter than Motherfucking Asshole, which is what Gina calls him. The problem is - well, there are lots of problems, but this one problem is - he is not just evil incarnate, not just the most vile and viscious monster, but a human who breathed and talked and ate lunch and took notes and held her hand, even. This makes her shudder, but it is also true.