A Spiritual Quest for a Deeper Connection with the Universe

Summary

• The protagonist, Nora, is trying to adjust to a newfound life where she isn't depressed and seems to have found domestic bliss with a husband, Ash, and a daughter, Molly.
• Throughout the day she tries to navigate this new life without any previous memories of it - including taking Molly to the park, making breakfast, and learning about the neighbor, Adam.
• Ash works at a hospital, often for long hours, and when he gets home, adds humour, light heartedness and a sense of authenticity to the family dynamic.
• Nora spends her time doing yoga, researching Thoreau for a project she's working on, touching base with her friend Izzy and listening to motivational podcasts.
• Despite her grounded life and the deep affinity and affection she feels for Ash and Molly, Nora occasionally feels wisps of depression. However, these bouts of depression are less severe than what she'd experience before she started her new life.
• At night, she worries if she will wake up back in the 'Midnight Library' - a place from which she could choose any life she wanted but had to commit to it fully in order to live it out fully.
• She often lies in bed, caught between fear of returning to her old, root life, and hope that she'll wake up in her new, chosen life.
• Nora struggles with the guilt of not having her own memories of this life, and after sleeping with Ash for the first time, she decides to tell him about her experience in the Midnight Library, and the concept of parallel universes.
• Despite her revelation, Ash doesn't see her differently. He only sees the Nora he had come to know and love. She finds comfort in this as it suggests that she's truly becoming this version of herself.