Twice
A Novel
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4.5 • 598 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What if you got to do everything in your life—twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along.
When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse.
He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. He even takes foolishly dangerous risks, just to see what it’s like to come close to death, before tapping back to safety.
Eventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment.
But as the years pass, Alfie’s eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his power: once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever.
The book begins many years later, after an ailing Alfie is arrested for allegedly cheating and winning millions at a casino roulette wheel. As a curious detective interrogates him, he slowly uncovers Alfie’s incredible story, and its most unlikely conclusion.
In Twice, America’s favorite storyteller, Mitch Albom, is at the top of his powers. A love story that is enchanting, probing, and clairvoyant in matters of the heart, Twice will make you think, weep, and overflow with love from beginning to end.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A magical premise gives way to a taut story of choice, cost, and love in this time-bending romantic drama from Mitch Albom. At eight, Alfie Logan learns he can relive moments from the past and try for a different outcome. But when he falls for Gianna years later, he discovers that replaying an instant isn’t the same as sustaining a life. Decades on, a roulette win and a relentless investigator force Alfie to explain the looping truth. While Albom’s inviting storytelling keeps the rules of redo clear and the moral calculus knotted, the love story holds the center, showing how fear, longing, and luck twist each choice in surprising ways. The interrogation frame adds pace, and the reveals land with satisfying inevitability as the lightly speculative touches keep the stakes personal rather than abstract. Warm, tricky, and emotionally direct, Twice asks us what we would change—and what might be lost if we did.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Albom (The Little Liar) delivers a clever tale of second chances and their limits. At age eight, Alfie Logan discovers an ability passed down through select members of his mother's family: by uttering the word twice, he gets an instant do-over, such as the opportunity to be present when his mother dies from a pulmonary embolism, rather than playing soccer in the yard. The novel opens in the present-day Bahamas, where middle-aged Alfie has been arrested on suspicion of cheating a casino with a suspicious run of roulette wins. From there, his life story unfolds in sections that alternate between an interrogation by Det. Vincent LaPorta and pages from the journal Alfie provides LaPorta by way of explaining his extraordinary performance at the casino. Before his arrest, Alfie wired his millions of dollars in earnings to a mysterious woman named Gianna Rule, who turns out to have been the love of Alfie's life. As the interrogation wears on, Alfie reveals the touching story of what happened with Gianna and what he failed to learn about love before it was too late. Along the way, Albom shrewdly uses Alfie's efforts to convince LaPorta he's telling the truth to encourage readers to suspend disbelief. The author's storytelling powers are on full display.
Customer Reviews
Amazing
An incredible run and concept. Makes u think what u would do!
Just amazing….
This book touched my heart… I absolutely loved the main character Alfie… such a genuine representative of what most human beings would be like if we had the ability to re-do any part of our lives that was painful or embarrassing… I just love this book!
I would read this book twice!
This book was so interesting to me! I liked how it would start to lead you down one path, and suddenly you are on a different path! I had to tune out everything around me and immerse myself in the story; distractions would have me not remembering how we got to the part of the story with the back and forth. A wonderful story about sacrifice, friendship and love!