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Synopsis
A devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife is still alive in this bold and thought-provoking novel. Dr. Jonas Cullen has spent his career as a groundbreaking physicist defying the odds. But on the best night of his life--the night his wife, Amanda, tells him they're finally having a baby--everything is taken away when a tragic car accident claims the lives of Amanda and their unborn child. Gutted by pain, Jonas sets out to find a way to bring back Amanda--or rather, find a parallel universe in which she's still alive. But that's easier said than done. As Jonas comes to understand all too well, the universe favors certain outcomes...and Amanda's death is one of them. Guggenheim's novel takes readers on a suspenseful journey, intercutting scenes of Jonas's frantic, present-day search across multiple realities with glimpses from the past of his unfolding romance and eventual marriage. Will Jonas and Amanda reunite in some other world, or will fate succeed in taking her from him forever?
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Is In Any Lifetime appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Parents should know this novel deals with the traumatic death of a spouse and unborn child in a car accident, exploring intense grief and a physicist's desperate quest across parallel realities to reunite with his lost wife.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, death of partner, death of spouse, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Readers will be moved by this suspenseful love story that asks whether true love can overcome even death itself across infinite universes.