The Rift

The Rift by Nina Allan (Titan Books, 2017) Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up. When they meet, she first refuses to explain what has happened to her, where she has been all this time. But soon she shares a fantastical story of being on another planet, of other people and animals and continents so unlike our own. There are many kinds of rifts here: between the sisters, between their parents as they deal with the loss of a child, in Julie’s own life as it skips from one world to another. But these rifts aren’t only breaks or absences; they are also openings, places where something emerges into the world that wasn’t there before. Each rift creates two things where before there seemed only one. View this post on the web, reply via email, or become a supporter.