![]() ![]() The doubt she feels with her husband continues to plague her, but he seems to truly love her and there are photos and memories that align with everything he says. He crosses the kitchen, puts his hands on my shoulders, and kisses my forehead, and waves of emotion wash over me in a way that’s becoming familiar: the urge to nestle into his arms, the urge to squirm away. ![]() ![]() Kelly’s new life comes with years of memories of its own that pour into her brain, and these two worlds are at war inside her. From enjoying the nightlife of a single woman in the city to a woman married to someone she remembers from high school, but thought she barely knew. She has gone from living the urban life of an artist in Chicago to living as a housewife in suburban Michigan. Her family and her hometown are unchanged, however, every other facet of the past twenty years has been altered. Kelly’s new life is entirely familiar and entirely different at the same time. This other world is her own, but it’s also not. If life gave you the chance to start over, would you take it? What if that chance wasn’t a choice, but forced upon you? The Other Me, Sarah Zachrich Jeng’s debut novel, follows the unsettling experience of a woman named Kelly Holter whose life is turned upside down when she steps into the bathroom at an art gallery one night and exits into another world.īlood pounds in my head, shadows encroaching on the edges of my vision like mold growth in a time-lapse video, covering my eyes as I run the last few steps to the door. ![]()
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