genre: contemporary fiction
When the older woman on the plane stands up and begins speaking, no one could imagine how her words will change the lives of every one who hears them. Is she a fortune teller? Is she a psychic? Can she really know the future? Because, what if she can, and there is no way to change your fate? Or what if we have more control over our future than we think we do?
I have not read many Liane Moriarty books, but this audiobook hooked me from the beginning. It's a mystery but it's not. It's a character study of one particular person but also it is many stories about many different people, whose lives are all impacted by those words spoken on a plan. There is a lot of back and forth between the main narrator and LOTS of other narrators, and there is also back and forth in time, which sometimes is hard to keep straight. It's a little bit longer than it needed to be. But for me, it was worth sticking with it because our main narrator is wildly quirky and I loved her "voice," there were a lot of twists and so much grace and when I finished, I had this lovely sense that maybe I do have more control over what my life is like than I sometimes think and isn't that a hopeful thing?
Excellent narration.
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