Michelle Maryk graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and attended the Yale Writer’s Workshop. For the better part of twenty-five years, she’s been a successful voiceover, on-camera commercial, and comedic actor, and she is a dual Swedish and US citizen.
The Found Object Society is her debut novel.
At Oprah Daily Maryk tagged six of the best time-travel books. One entry on the list:
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Sean GreerRead about another novel on Maryk's list.
Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Less, had me ugly crying on a beach in Mexico, so I’ll read anything he writes. There’s an elegant simplicity to his prose that cuts tothe quick of human frailty, and this very different story of his was no exception.
The novel centers on a woman in the mid-1980s who is grieving the death of her twin brother to AIDS while suffering through a terrible breakup. Feeling helpless, she agrees to undergo electroshock therapy. With each session, she is involuntarily transported to a version of her life in either 1918, 1941, or present-day 1985. Each rendition of Greta has a different career and personality, yet the principal characters in her life—her ex-lover and her twin brother—are always there, showing up as different iterations of themselves. Gorgeously rendered, this book lends hope to the idea that whatever path we’re on, it’s worth living.
The Page 69 Test: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
My Book, The Movie: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
--Marshal Zeringue
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