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My Thoughts on Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein



  "We don't pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us."


Sarah Epstein's Small Spaces is a beautifully written, perfectly creepy and wonderfully gripping novel that messes with your head until the very last page.
The novel follows a teenage Tash Carmody who witnessed another girl, Mallory Fisher, being abducted at a carnival when they were both young children by her harrowing imaginary friend, Sparrow. Over time, Tash has come to accept that what she saw that night was a childish lie, engineered so that she would be rewarded with attention from her parents. But when Mallory and her family return to Tash's town, memories of Sparrow resurface and she starts to wonder if maybe what she saw that year was real.
Sarah Epstein is a born writer and her passion for writing shines in every word. Small Spaces had me both terrified and desperate to turn the next page, and I will always remember the week I spent reading this book, immersed in the world of Tash, Sparrow and the world of fear and mystery bound into those 400 (or so) pages.

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