“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. This book made me very happy because it reminded me of my favourite passage from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, which the novel actually references at one point:
And if she doesn’t decide, there’s disastrous consequences at stake. Guided by the Librarian, Nora must decide which life she wants to switch to. It houses a limitless supply of books, each of which contains an alternative life Nora might have lived had she made different decisions to the life she lived, her ‘root’ life. It exists at midnight, and midnight alone. The library is a liminal space found between life and death.
After a moment of desperation, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. She lives with depression and is unhappy with how her life has turned out. If ever you needed an uplifting read, The Midnight Library would be a choice for you.
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