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No Two Persons

by Erica Bauermeister

One novel, many lives

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AlbakiReads Editorial

One novel, many lives

Erica Bauermeister connects the making of a debut novel with the varied lives of the people who read it. Alice’s story begins with an ambition to write and takes shape after a devastating event; once published, her novel reaches readers facing homelessness, grief, artistic anger, and other personal struggles. The book’s linked structure gives each reader a distinct response to the same work, tracing how a story can shift perspective and open new possibilities. Together, these separate experiences also explore the ties that can form between people who might otherwise seem far apart.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in novels about the effects of reading and storytelling.
  • For readers who enjoy interconnected stories centered on different characters’ lives.
  • For readers drawn to fiction exploring grief, homelessness, artistic ambition, and personal change.

Themes

The influence of books and storytellingInterconnected livesGrief and personal changeArtistic ambition

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Book overview

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is "a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives."*

That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go...

Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice's novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.

Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways--and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.

"With its beautiful parts that add up to a brilliant whole, No Two Persons made my reader's heart sing."--*Nina de Gramont, New York Times bestselling author of The Christie Affair

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