Title: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Summary: It's 1985 and Greta Wells is dealing with the death of her twin brother and a breakup with her longtime love Nathan. In an attempt to deal with her crippling depression, Greta embarks on a series of radical psychiatric treatments. Each treatment takes her between three different time periods: 1985, 1918 and 1941. In the alternate time periods the people in her 1985 life are still there--her brother, Nathan, and others but her life is radically different in each. As her treatments end, which year will she stay in?
My review: The last chapter of this book saved it for me. I really liked the year Greta ultimately chose and the reason for it. Until then, I was ambivalent about the book. It was a quick read, thus the reason I stayed with it. Of course, it was also a nice change from the "was it a suicide or not" genre I had been stuck in.
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