Book Awards honoree, and The Fifty-First State. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney’s, her essays and short fiction have appeared in Past Ten, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Black Warrior Review and other journals.
Borders’s new novel is Last Night at the Disco.
At Electric Lit the author tagged seven novels in which female protagonists "are all very different characters, but the one thing they share is being trapped between two worlds, even if that trap is of their own making." One title on the list:
The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-LoveRead about another entry on the list.
A harrowing birth is also at the heart of The Possibilities, in which a new mother sees disturbing images of what might have been, and to save her sonmust confront not just a double life, but a multiverse of outcomes. Eight months since the difficult birth of her son, Jack, narrator Hannah can’t shake the feeling that her thriving infant might not have survived. As visions of this other life where she loses her baby destabilize Hannah, Jack disappears from his crib, and Hannah must tap into an ability to visit alternate worlds in order to save him. I loved the way this novel flipped the script on the double life plot: Instead of making a permanent shift into a different version of her life, Hannah has to fight for the life and child she already has.
The Page 69 Test: The Possibilities.
Q&A with Yael Goldstein-Love.
--Marshal Zeringue
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