Winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize
A NEW YORKER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR
A poetic, page-turning masterpiece of time, memory, and dislocation.
“It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences. That we wouldn’t be here at all if it weren’t for these curious twists of fate.”
Tara Selter has slipped out of time.
Each morning, she wakes to the same day: the 18th of November. The 19th never arrives. The 17th fades into obscurity. Trapped in a single, endlessly repeating day, Tara becomes intimately familiar with every detail—the grey morning light in her Paris hotel room, the precise moment a blackbird sings, the look of surprise on her husband’s face when she returns home unexpectedly.
But for everyone else, this day is happening only once. They remember nothing of the previous 18ths, and they do not believe her when she tries to explain.
As Tara approaches her 365th iteration of the same day, a subtle feeling begins to rise—something hidden beneath the surface of time. A possibility. A way out.
Profound and mesmerizing, this is the first volume in a stunning literary exploration of time, identity, and the delicate architecture of fate.
Physical Info: 5.35 x 0.34 x 8.5 inches | 192 Pages | Paperback
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