"There are few wounds that cut as deeply as regret, and Scott Alexander Howard captures that pain and yearning beautifully. Odile is poised to embrace a bright, promising future when she stumbles upon a grave secret, one that portends consequences she knows will be cataclysmic. Unable to act, Odile is then driven by grief to a series of bad decisions that reset the course of her life irrevocably. A delicate dance between fate, choice, and free will, The Other Valley presses us to reexamine our own lives, and push the boundaries of how much change can truly be possible in a world so unforgiving of mistakes."
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Publication Date 2024-02-27
Section New Hardcover - Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Melissa S.
Format
ISBN 9781668015476
"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
