The Other Side of Nothing: A Novel

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When Julia Reeves loses her beloved father at seventeen, her world goes dark. One day after her eighteenth birthday, she checks into an inpatient psychiatric facility, looking for answersand finds fellow suicide survivor Sam Lorenzo.

A brilliant, enigmatic, twenty-three-year-old photographer struggling with bipolar disorder, Sams passion for art and poetry brings light back into Julias life. So when he begs her to escape with him to embark on a cross-country odyssey and fulfill their wildest dreams, Julia agrees. Within hours, shes shopped at Saks, dined in a Michelin-starred restaurant, and learned that Sam doesnt believe in mood-stabilizing medication.

Before she can even absorb what shes done, the two young lovers are on the run.

Meanwhile, informed that Julia has disappeared and the powers that be will do nothing to find her, Julias mother, Laura, forms an uneasy alliance with the one person who as much to lose as she does: Sams mother, Arabella. Armed with only a handful of cluesa missing photograph of Half Dome cut from its frame, a second-chance bucket list Julia left behind, and a cryptic text from an unknown numberthe two mothers embark on a journey of their own, hoping to save their kids before they are lost forever.

Author Bio

Anastasia Zadeik is a writer, editor, and storyteller. After graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in psychology from Smith College, she had an international career in neuropsychological research while raising her children. She now serves as Director of Operations for the San Diego Writers Festival, as a coproducer of the San Diego Memoir Showcase, and as a mentor and board member for the literary nonprofit So Say We All. A frequent performer of narrative non-fiction in a hushed bar, her work has appeared in the San Diego Decameron Project, LitHub, writeordietribe.com, Literary Vine Review, and the award-winning anthology Shaking the Tree: Short. Brazen. Memoir. Her debut novel, Blurred Fates, was released by She Writes Press in August 2022.