diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/GapicSpannerRpc.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/GapicSpannerRpc.java
index 9a7fd447359c..e37841b2435b 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/GapicSpannerRpc.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/GapicSpannerRpc.java
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 
 import com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerException;
 import com.google.cloud.spanner.spi.v1.SpannerRpc.Option;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.v1.stub.GrpcSpannerStub;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.v1.stub.SpannerStub;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.v1.stub.SpannerStubSettings;
 import com.google.longrunning.Operation;
 import com.google.protobuf.FieldMask;
 import com.google.spanner.admin.database.v1.Database;
@@ -34,13 +37,18 @@
 import com.google.spanner.v1.RollbackRequest;
 import com.google.spanner.v1.Session;
 import com.google.spanner.v1.Transaction;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 
-
 /** Implementation of Cloud Spanner remote calls using Gapic libraries. */
 public class GapicSpannerRpc implements SpannerRpc {
+  private final SpannerStub stub;
+
+  public GapicSpannerRpc() throws IOException {
+    stub = GrpcSpannerStub.create(SpannerStubSettings.newBuilder().build());
+  }
 
   @Override
   public Paginated<InstanceConfig> listInstanceConfigs(int pageSize, @Nullable String pageToken)
@@ -169,6 +177,8 @@ public PartitionResponse partitionQuery(
   @Override
   public PartitionResponse partitionRead(
       PartitionReadRequest request, @Nullable Map<Option, ?> options) throws SpannerException {
-    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not implemented yet.");
+    // TODO(pongad): Figure out metadata
+    // TODO(pongad): Figure out channel affinity
+    return stub.partitionReadCallable().call(request);
   }
 }