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The Possibilities

Yael Goldstein-Love

A new mother’s search for her vanished baby opens into a multiverse where every version of her life feels dangerously real.

First published 2023

Review Score: 73%

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Hannah is a new mother still shaken by her son Jack’s traumatic birth and by vivid memories that seem to suggest a different outcome. As her marriage strains and her sense of reality becomes less stable, she begins seeing unsettling versions of her life and wondering whether she is unraveling or sensing something truly strange.

When Jack disappears, Hannah is forced to search beyond her own world. The story follows her as she moves through alternate realities in which Jack may be alive, dead, missing, or erased, while people around her respond differently in each version of events.

As Hannah tries to understand what is happening, the novel links her quest to postpartum fear, maternal devotion, and the pressure of trying to keep a child safe. The narrative becomes a multiverse-driven rescue story in which the truth about Jack, Hannah’s birth experience, and her own family history gradually comes into focus.

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