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Friday, July 18, 2014

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer, 304 pages

I listened to this book because the library book clubs are reading it this year.  As the story begins, it is 1985 and Greta Wells is in a deep depression.  Her twin Felix recently died of AIDS and within six months her long time live-in lover, Nathan, left her for another woman.  Her aunt Ruth is all she has left.  Antidepressants are not helping so Greta makes the decision to try electroconvulsive therapy.  She is scheduled for 26 treatments.

The therapy causes her to wake up in other times, 1918 and 1941.  In these other times she is still Greta, still taking the electric shock therapy and the key people in her life are still there.

I mostly enjoyed this book, though I also found it annoying as Greta was often overwrought with emotion, or maybe that was just the audiobook reader . . . anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing what the other book club members thought about this one.

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