The Space Between Strangers

On a Thursday morning in Brooklyn, twenty-four-year-old Delia Marsh gets off the subway when her body finally tells her she has no choice. Battling endometriosis and too stubborn to listen to herself, she ends up alone on a bench at DeKalb Avenue station-dizzy, in pain, and eight hundred miles from the one person she wants. Then Vera Holloway walks by. She doesn't have to stop. She's on her way home from water aerobics with half a coco bread in a paper bag and nowhere to be for another hour.
But she stops. She sits. She calls Delia's mother in Ohio and promises to wait. What happens in that hour changes both of them in ways neither could have predicted. The Space Between Strangers is a quiet, deeply moving novella about the kindness that still moves through our world when we remember to look up-a story that reminds us that the most important thing we can do on any given day is simply decide not to keep walking.
For readers of Jojo Moyes and Amor Towles who believe that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary grace.