#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a
powerful (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE Everything changes in a single moment
for Dawn Edelstein. She s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare
for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing
is the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt
Armstrong. Dawn miraculously survives the crash but so do all the doubts that have suddenly
been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston there is her husband Brian their
beloved daughter and her work as a death doula in which she helps ease the transition between
life and death for her clients. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong who works as an
archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to
abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now when it seems that fate is offering her second
chances she is not as sure of the choice she once made. After the crash landing the airline
ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor then offers transportation to wherever they
want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home but she could take another path: return to
the archaeological site she left years before reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved
history and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways the first known map of
the afterlife. As the story unfolds Dawn s two possible futures unspool side by side as do
the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she s never
truly asked: What does a life well lived look like? When we leave this earth what do we leave
behind? Do we make choices . . . or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn t
turned out to be the person you are right now?
