We follow two dramatic storylines with serious repercussions – two Hannah’s trying to stay afloat after something mind-shattering happens to them.

Does it matter that once I heard his wife’s voice, once I knew the names of his children, I never spoke to him again? The winter was harsh and cold and only seemed to emphasize further how alone I was in a city of millions. For the reader, getting to see both scenario's play out concurrently through this book is fun and mostly delightful!I have to think that the small ones don’t matter, that I’ll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do. On the heels of leaving another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence with her best friend Gabby. Those were the same times I wished she didn't have a family to back her up in both universes, because despite the problems, she always seemed to have it too easy. There's heartache and mess contained within these pages, but Maybe in Another Life is mostly a mature coming-of-age story about fate and choices and finding happiness when you're around thirty and still have nothing figured out in your life. And is finding the right man still the driving force in a woman's life--or was I transported to 1943, reading "Cherry Ames, Student Nurse"?

But if anything, that just highlights the difference between the two of us, how much Gabby has changed since then and how much I have not. life is just a series of breaths in and out, all I really have to do in this world is breath in and then breathe out.

Sometimes that road takes unexpected twists and turns, but the beauty of it is that sometimes you end up in a better place than you could have dreamed.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I fly a fair amount, and I can tell you, with any flight, it’s really only takeoff and landing that are hard. All in all, it was ok, but not one I will be reading again and not a great introduction into the works of Taylor Jenkins Reid. From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold-with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. I suspected that I was, in fact, the other woman when we ran into a coworker of his at a restaurant in SoHo, and rather than introduce me to the man, Michael told me I had something in my teeth and that I should go to the bathroom to get it out.As these two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? It was incredibly real and honest and this author’s writing made the characters so relatable, believable, and understandable.