Maybe in Another Life: A Novel

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Anyways, so many details left untold, just alternative present without much to say about the past or future. If you are a fan of alternate realties or slip worlds in the same vein as the famous film Sliding Doors, this book will fill your bucket! I love her flawed characters but I love how perfect are the friendships and the family relationships are.

Back where she started, living with her best friend (an awesome black woman and her handsome husband, Mark! After I Do is a raw, unflinching exploration of the realities of marriage, the delicate nature of love, and the enduring strength of family. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby’s guestroom. From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold-with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. With my really good friends whose sexual orientations line up with mine, what kept us from becoming romantic partners was far more nuanced than that.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. I have to admit, I didn’t read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo because it has a bisexual main character, and I knew Taylor Jenkins Reid is straight, and I just was not in the mood for dealing with questionable representation. It’s been more than ten years, and yet I am still floating from place to place, relying on the kindness of Gabby and her family.

The first few chapters of the book felt fairly familiar - This could’ve easily been my college girlfriends and me (minus: one very poor decision) in our social routine.

I cannot believe I started this book twice last year and didn't finish it up either time but, damn well, I am so glad to have read this book today! And as you read the book, you’ll see exactly how that possibility unfolds and let me tell you, it kept my heart RACING!

The world is splitting further and further into an infinite number of parallel universes where everything that could happen is happening. What I’m getting at here is that I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices that led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. One night, she comes to a fork in the road and, from this moment, the chapters alternate between the two parallel lives she's going to have depending on the choice she made.There are two epilogues and I think I must have read them both three times each before I finally put the book down for good because I loved them that much! Both stories were basic and unoriginal, so it didn’t feel real, I didn’t feel attached to the character. Simultaneously funny and sad, heartbreaking and hopeful, Reid has crafted a story of love lost and found that is as timely as it is timeless. The biggest issue in this book to me is that characters are default white unless Taylor Jenkins Reid describes them as not white.

As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: is anything meant to be?I have always loved this trope, alongside the concept of the Butterfly Effect, where one tiny flap of a butterfly's wings can impact the whole world. But if I’m being honest, I also found it hard to look at myself in the mirror for more than a few seconds before going back out there and pretending I didn’t know what he was trying to do. I started of liking the premise of alternating chapters with the parallel events especially when each chapter started off with the same paragraph.