Interesting Facts About Space

A Novel

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she’s not listening to her favorite true crime podcasts on a loop, she’s serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she’s trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father. When she unwittingly plunges into her first serious romantic entanglement, Enid starts to believe that someone is following her.

As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her. Because at the end of the day there’s only one person she can’t outrun—herself.

Brimming with quirky humor, charm, and heart, Interesting Facts about Space effortlessly shows us the power of revealing our secret shames, the most beautifully human parts of us all.

©2024 Emily Austin (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

If you enjoy sharply dark humor and character development, Interesting Facts About Space is for you.

The writing is sharp and hilarious writing. The book hinges on its triumphant character development. The voice performance is superb; fitting perfectly with Enid.

Interesting Facts About Enid

3.5 stars for Interesting Facts About Space by Emily R. Austin. This is the story of Enid, deaf in one ear, a lesbian, covered in rat tattoos and obsessed with space. She works as an info tech at the Space Center and has a phobia of bald men. She, like most of us, has a complicated relationship with her mother who suffers from bouts of depression and stops wearing her lipstick. Enid is a quirky character who is most likely some form of neuro divergent but who has a best friend, Vic, who is also gay and makes fun of their sports obsessed coworker with her and brings her cake. When we enter Enid's life she is desperately trying to build a relationship with her two half sisters from her father who left Enid and her mother early on. The relationships really rung true to me in this story and I found myself rooting for Enid. Some of her eccentricities got to be a bit much but I assume that was the point. I liked the book and would recommend you read it if you are ok with character driven stories that don't have much of a plot. There was one small plot with a mystery aspect to it and I found that compelling enough to keep me reading even when Enid was irksome! There are themes of mental health, abandonment, neuro divergence, lesbianism, and mother daughter relationships. A reading friend compared it to Eleanor Oliphant and Strange Sally Diamond. I think that is very accurate, although this is not quite as heavy as either of those.

Very different

I liked this book very much. It grabbed me and took me away. I felt like I was there with the main character.

Good narration.

I almost didn’t finish reading his book. The first few chapters felt incredibly disjointed and nonsensical. Stuck with it, and the rest of the book flowed well. Started to connect on a deeper level with the main character.

Adorable

Corky, dorky light hearted modern listen. Really enjoyed hearing a just a day in the life of someone normal. 🤗