Thanks to Caitlin Mulrooney-Lyski of Berkley/NAL, Penguin Group USA, I am giving away one copy of The Other Life.  

Book Description:

Quinn Braverman, a pregnant and happily married young mother with an unsettling secret.  As a child, she stumbled across a portal to an alternate reality where her other life was playing out, a place where every choice she made was the opposite of what was happening in her present life.  Intrigued yet wary, Quinn ignored the portal for more than two decades while building a life on Long Island with her attentive husband and adorable young son.   But their idyllic life is threatened when Quinn gets frightening news about her pregnancy, and the portal draws her like a magnet with the promise of a fear-free existence.  More than a simple escape from uncertainty and grief, it offers a comforting reunion with her artistic bipolar mother whose suicide seven years ago shattered Quinn’s world—on the other side of the portal, her mother is still very much alive.

Unable to resist the portal’s lure, Quinn begins to slide back and forth between the parallel universes, each of which offers elements of bliss as well as devastating loss.  In one life she has a loving, stable husband and a six year old who needs her, but she also faces a shattering prognosis for her unborn child and no mother to comfort her.  In the other, she is free of this pregnancy’s burden, happily living with her neurotic, famous ex-boyfriend in New York City , and, though childless, is reunited with her beloved mother.  How can she possibly choose?  

THE OTHER LIFE explores just what it means to be a mother and asks the impossible question of what to do when you learn that your unborn child will be severely disabled.  In addition to being an emotionally powerful story, the rights to the book were recently optioned by HBO to become a series. 

About Ellen Meister:

Ellen Meister is the author of two other novels, The Smart One and Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA, as well as numerous short stories.  In addition to writing, she served as editor for a literary magazine and lectures on writing-related issues.  She lives on Long Island with her husband and three children.  Learn more about Ellen on her website at www.ellenmeister.com.
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