“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.”
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Matt Haig built his career writing about mental health with radical honesty. The Midnight Library is perhaps his most hopeful work - a fantasy novel about a woman named Nora who finds herself in a library containing every book of every life she could have lived.
The premise is simple but the execution is rich. Haig uses each alternate life Nora visits to explore questions of regret, identity, and what it really means to live well. It is funny, sad, and ultimately deeply uplifting.
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