Matt Haig's "The Midnight Library," is about parallel universes. The main protagonist, Nora Seed is depressed. Every career, goal, even a beloved pet, she fails. She doesn't see any reason to keep on living. So she overdoses.
Before she dies, she is in between worlds. Through her favorite librarian, who taught her how to play chess and seemed to be the easiest adult to talk to, she travels to different choices that might have led to Nora being happy and successful. Every book in this Midnight Library takes Nora to a life that might have been.
She tries quite a few. In one of them, Nora is almost killed but she fights valiantly to live. Yes, to live! Ultimately, she decides she really does want to live. She goes back to her former life with a different attitude. She sees things differently. She's kinder and so is her world. She appreciates her life.
"The Midnight Library" was an easy read. The plot was different and simple. There wasn't a complicated list of characters, nor any twists. Life is what you make it and prison is just a perception.
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