The Singular Life of Aria Patel
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Publisher Description
For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and See You Yesterday, this captivating and mind-bending second-chance romance explores what it means to love—even across the multiverse.
Aria Patel likes stability, certainty, predictability. It’s why she’s so into science. It's why she dumped her boyfriend before they went to different colleges because the odds were that something would go wrong, eventually. In a life that’s already so chaotic, why obsess over complicated relationships and shadowy unknowns when the scientific method gives you direction and a straight path to avoid all the drama.
But there’s no avoiding anything when Aria finds herself suddenly falling through parallel universes and there’s no formula that can save her. She can’t explain why she’s been waking up in a new reality almost every day, or why Rohan, and a poem from her English class, seem to be following her through every new life.
As Aria desperately attempts to find a way home, she eventually ends up stuck in a parallel world very similar to her own. She cherishes this new version of her family, and she finds herself unable to deny the yearning she has for Rohan…but it’s not her life or her Rohan. It belongs to another Aria, another girl, and unless Aria can get back home, she’ll have taken this happiness away from someone else forever. And she may never find her own.
This whirlwind novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed will whisk you through worlds unknown, all while putting a multiverse spin on one of BookTok’s favorite tropes: second chance romance.
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Physics-obsessed Chicago teenager Aria Patel has recently been experiencing unexplainable, painful headaches. When her widowed mother suddenly falls ill, Aria—managing another headache—rushes home. En route, Aria passes out after witnessing her mother's car collide with a truck and, upon waking, encounters her mother, who isn't acting like her usual self. Soon, Aria realizes that she's been transported to a different universe; she cycles through several more alternate realities before seemingly settling into one where her father is alive, and she has significantly better chemistry with her ex-boyfriend Rohan. But even as Aria acclimates to her new existence—and her positive yet complicated feelings about her father and Rohan—she worries for her mother back in her original world. By centering a no-nonsense protagonist who relies on data rather than emotions to navigate everyday problems, Ahmed (This Book Won't Burn) tees up a fascinating exploration of logic vs. instinct. Aria's pragmatic approach to her predicament allows for a smooth introduction of the novel's scientific concepts, while her gradual immersion into each reality's interpersonal conflicts and relationships add depth. Aria's family is Muslim and reads as Indian American. Ages 12–up.
