{"product_id":"the-space-between-ordinary-9798188711610","title":"The Space Between Ordinary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Louise Van Esse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Girls \u0026amp; Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the place you were looking for was never a destination, but a room? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouise Van Esse has always been a wanderer. As a child, she disappeared into imaginary countries from the safety of her backyard trampoline. As an adult, she's crossed deserts in Africa, lived out of a van in the Pacific Northwest, and backpacked across Europe with a bag that never quite closed right. She has always preferred driving to flying, because a road lets you go anywhere, while a plane only lets you arrive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt began, almost by accident, in a coffee shop in the Ozarks, where a badly ordered espresso and a room full of strangers taught her something she didn't yet have words for: that some rooms hold you the moment you walk into them, whether or not you have any reason to stay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Space Between Ordinary follows Louise across nine unforgettable stops on a journey that spans continents: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA desert bakery in Namibia built by a widow determined to give an empty landscape a reason to notice her\u003cbr\u003eA Pacific Northwest coffee shop whose whiteboard becomes a lifeline for an entire community with no fixed address\u003cbr\u003eA Portuguese village square fighting to save the caf� that has fed it for forty-three years\u003cbr\u003eA shop in the Balkans where two old enemies quietly begin sharing a table, and never explain why\u003cbr\u003eA family-run caf� in Vietnam that claims a lost, soaked traveler as one of its own within a single evening\u003cbr\u003eA high-altitude town in Peru that refuses, gently and completely, to be rushed\u003cbr\u003eA hollowed-out shop back home that teaches her the cost of a room that's forgotten what it used to be \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach stop leaves her with a little more of the answer to a question she didn't know she was asking, until she finally has enough of it to build something of her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart travelogue, part meditation on community and belonging, The Space Between Ordinary is a novel for anyone who has ever sat in a room, a coffee shop, a kitchen, a stranger's kindness, and felt, for reasons they couldn't quite name, like they'd found their way home.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48215104946327,"sku":"9798188711610","price":1055.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798188711610.webp?v=1788732128","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-space-between-ordinary-9798188711610","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}