If, Then

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family driven suspense of Celeste Ng s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists.In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of a beautiful co worker in Ginny s own bed and begins to doubt the solidity of her marriage Ginny s husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist, sees a vision that suggests impending devastation and grows increasingly paranoid, threatening the safety of his wife and son Samara, a young woman desperately mourning the recent death of her mother and questioning why her father seems to be coping with such ease, witnesses an apparition of her mother healthy and vibrant and wonders about the secrets her parents may have kept from her Cass, a brilliant scholar struggling with the demands of new motherhood, catches a glimpse of herself pregnant again, just as she s on the brink of returning to the project that could define her career.At first the visions are relatively benign, but they grow increasingly disturbing and, in some cases, frightening When a natural disaster threatens Clearing, it becomes obvious that the visions were not what they first seemed and that the town will never be the same. New Download Kindle ePUB If, Then by Kate Hope Day – kino-fada.fr NOW AVAILABLE this is a fun, slipstreamy what if novel that gently floats the possibility of parallel realities as four characters living in a small oregon town begin to experience visions seeing alternate versions of themselves living completely different lives, having made different choices at their crossroads of love or career lives with different partners, realities where their dearly departed are still alive and well, or most alarmingly, seeing a doppelg nger whose appearance sugg NOW AVAILABLE this is a fun, slipstreamy what if novel that gently floats the possibility of parallel realities as four characters living in a small oregon town begin to experience visions seeing alternate versions of themselves living completely different lives, having made different choices at their crossroads of love or career lives with different partners, realities where their dearly departed are still alive and well, or most alarmingly, seeing a doppelg nger whose appearance suggests a catastrophe on a much larger scale than the personal what is causing these visi...The book held my interest but I can t say I was left feeling all that satisfied by the time the story wrapped up While the explanation of why everything occurred wasn t the thing that bothered me, I had this empty feeling when I was done reading because it felt like I got nothing out of the whole purpose of the story I rarely read science fiction but I thought the premise for this one sounded like it had potential Basically four neighbors are just living their lives in Oregon when some weird The book held my interest but I can t say I was left feeling all that satisfied by the time the story wrapped up While the explanation of why everything occurred wasn t the thing that bothered me, I had this empty feeling when I was done reading because it felt like I got nothing out of the whole purpose of the story I rarely read science fiction but I thought the premise for this one sounded like it had potential Basically four neighbors are just living their lives in Oregon when some weird stuff starts happening They have these visions where they see themselves in this alternate reality What the heck is going on I gave this one 3 stars because this was a page turner for me But if I ask myself, did I really get anything out of this read ,...I suppose we ve all asked ourselves the question.If I had made this choice Then.how would my life be different That is the question that Kate Hope Day explores in this novel Clearing, Oregon in a neighborhood just like any other four neighbors experience alternate realities via hallucinations or visions Ginny devoted surgeon and married mother of an 11 year old son suddenly has a vision that she and a female co worker and friend are romantically involved Mark Ginny s I suppose we ve all asked ourselves the question.If I had made this choice Then.how would my life be different That is the question that Kate Hope Day explores in this novel Clearing, Oregon in a neighborhood just like any other four neighbors experience alternate realities via hallucinations or visions Ginny devoted surgeon and married mother of an 11 year old son suddenly has a vision that she and a female co worker and friend are romantically involved Mark Ginny s husband and scientist has a vision of himself filthy and in tattered clothing after what appears to be some sort of volcanic explosionSamara has a vision of her recently deceased mother that she is ...Do you ever read one of those books where you realize you re 80% done with it and nothing has really even happened That was this book There s an interesting kernel of an idea here about multiverses and what happens when they overlap but it just never goes anywhere, and when it finally does kind of it s rushed and winds up feeling very incomplete This would have beenacceptable if it were a different kind of book, the kind where internal character development takes precedence of plot, Do you ever read one of those books where you realize you re 80% done with it and nothing has really even happened That was this book There s an interesting kernel of an idea here about multiverses and what happens when they overlap but it just never goes anywhere, and when it finally does kind of it s rushed and winds up feeling very incomplete This would have beenacceptable if it were a di...If, Then is a quiet, speculative novel about four neighbors living in suburban Oregon Ginny and Mark are an unhappily married couple, Samara is a young woman coping with the recent death of her mother, and Cass is a young mom who s had to sacrifice her academic ambitions for motherhood Gradually the novel introduces the possibility of parallel realities which have begun to overlap, as each character starts to see visions of an alternate version of themselves Throughout the course of the short If, Then is a quiet, speculative novel about four neighbors living in suburban Oregon Ginny and Mark are an unhappily married couple, Samara is a young woman coping with the recent death of her mother, and Cass is a young mom who s had to sacrifice her academic ambitions for motherhood Gradually the novel introduces the possibility of parallel realities which have begun to overlap, as each character starts to see visions of an alternate version of themselves Throughout the course of the short novel we study each of these characters and unearth the decisions each of them made which p...Can speculative domestic dramas be a new trend Because I would like to read at least fivebooks like this one It takes the kind of complex character building I really enjoy and adds unexpected elements and surreal twists that keep it from feeling like anything close to the same old thing.At the heart of this book is what usually exists just in your mind as you wonder what other paths your life could have taken if you d made a different decision But in this book, those other selves are ev Can speculative domestic dramas be a new trend Because I would like to read at least fivebooks like this one It takes the kind of complex character building I really enjoy and adds unexpected elements and surreal twists that keep it from feeling like anything close to the same old thing.At the heart of this book is what usually exists just in your mind as you wonder what other paths your life could have taken if you d made a different decision But in this book, those other selves are ever so briefly made real to a group of characters in an Oregon town In the middle of a normal day they will see, for an instant, another version of themselves that is much the same but slightly different As these visions recur, they have varying consequences for everyone involved A woman starts to wonder about the possibility of life with a female coworker by her side instead of her husband A daughter views g...I loved this time warping, mind twisting novel Day s prose is convincing and beautiful, whether she is writing from the point of view of a doctor doing surgery, to a scientist doing field work, to a realtor selling houses She handles the unusual bumps and folds of time that the story reveals in an equally expert way I often thought of Tom Perrotta s wonderful The Leftovers as I read it, in the sense that she made me believe that unbelievable things could actually happen This is literary fict I loved this time warping, mind twisting novel Day s prose is convincing and beautiful, whether she is writing from the point of view of a doctor doing surgery, to a scientist doing field work, to a realtor selling houses She handles the unusual bumps and folds of time that the story reveals in an equally expert way I often thought of Tom Perrotta...If, Then is a short, quiet novel but it s also a fascinating one I wish If, Then had gottenattention because it s absolutely wonderful.Set in a fictional town near a also fictional presumably dormant volcano in the Pacific Northwest, If, Then posits that we live multiple lives in multiple ways at the same time aka multiverse and has her characters get a glimpse into these other lives some better, some worse as the volcano starts to rumble What s interesting is that for two of th If, Then is a short, quiet novel but it s also a fascinating one I wish If, Then had gottenattention because it s absolutely wonderful.Set in a fictional town near a also fictional presumably dormant volcano in the Pacific Northwest, If, Then posits that we live multiple lives in multiple ways at the same time aka multiverse and has her characters get a glimpse into these other lives some better, some worse as the volcano starts to rumble What s interesting is that for two of the main female characters, it offers pleasant changes from their current lives in one, a different partner, in other, the return of a lost loved one , while the main male character sees nothing but pain and suffering But who I really want to talk about is Cassandra who is so perfectly named a one time graduate student who stoppe...

• English
• 19 November 2017
Kate Hope Day
• Hardcover
• 260 pages
• 0525511229
• Kate Hope Day
• If, Then