Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Stars: 4
Review by: Miss Lucy

Imagine having 3 alternate lives through which you rotate, spending a few days at a time in each one.  One is in the present, another in 1918, and the last in 1941.  You are the same age in each one, you live in the same place, and the same people to whom you are closest are in your other lives as well.  But what is going on in each life is different from the others, due to circumstances and events and social mores of the times.  Greta Wells experiences this alternate-life travel (different from time travel) for three months of her life.

Like time travel books, this concept can make your head spin, but in a good way.  This book is quite enjoyable, and I plan to read it again in order to better get my head around some of the happenings.  I'm looking forward to that.

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