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    Choices

    By Deborah Lynn Jacobs

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    SHIFTING BETWEEN MULTIPLE REALITIES A teenage girl consumed by guilt over her brother's death tries to find a universe in which he is still alive.

    Sticky notes rim the mirror in rainbow colors. REMEMBER. DON'T FORGET HIM. READ THE NOTEBOOK. Remember what? Remember who? And what's this about a notebook? There's another note, bottom center of the mirror. THE DREAMS ARE REAL.

    In an unconscious effort to find her dead brother, Kathleen slips between universes. Choices begins in one dimension, then fractures into four distinct voices with every deision Kathleen/Kay/Kate/Kathy makes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9781626723818
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    Deborah Lynn Jacobs

    Deborah Lynn Jacobs is a transplanted Canadian, now a Wisconsin resident. Debbie admits to having many previous careers: college counselor, college instructor, life-skills coach, newspaper and magazine freelancer. Since her children are now in college, she lives with her husband and a 100-pound Doberman. When she’s not writing, Debbie can be found in her perennial garden or paddling down a river somewhere in the wilderness. Powers is her first novel for older teens. Roaring Brook published Choices in Fall 2007.

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    • 4/5
      “Okay, let’s say you’re right,” I say, “We’re shifting between multiple copies of ourselves. Is that why I have two sets of memories? The memories I carry with me when I shift, and the memories of the body I’ve shifted into?”“Exactly,” Luke says.I shiver. “We’re like ghost, possessing our own bodies for a time and moving on.” (92)Stranded at a party because everyone, including her best friend Jen, is drunk, Kathleen calls her brother to pick her up. The weather conditions are fierce – snow settling on the icy roads. Nick is involved in a devastating car accident that takes his life. Kathleen blames herself and in her moment of anger and blame isolates herself from Jen and anyone else once close to her. Kathleen’s mother begins to drink while her father pretends as though nothing is wrong.Or, in another reality…Kathleen is still stranded at the party and Nick is still dead, but instead of her mother drinking she has been throwing herself in to community efforts to help prevent drunk driving and various other causes. Jen is still Kathleen’s best friend, and life moves on.The only thing that each of the realities have in common is a boy named Luke, whose first interaction with Kathleen is at Nick’s funeral. Kathleen doesn’t know where he came from but instantly feels a connection. Plus, he seems to be the only one who has memories of his own alternate realities. Maybe he can help her find the one where her brother is still alive.What drew me into this book was the notion of alternate universes. I don’t think that I’m a very big fan of time travel novels, although I guess the concept of realities all existing simultaneously is similar in fashion. I’m looking over the notes that I made about this novel and I’m not quite sure where I was going with it. I wrote something along the lines of follow up with Rogers (Carl Rogers, a brilliant theorist and therapist back in the 60’s I wanna say. He devised the notion of person-centered therapy and was best known for his work with schizophrenics. Rogers believed that we must emerge ourselves into the schizophrenic reality to communicate with them, rather than try to force them into our reality. But you see, even though I made this notation, I am not quite sure why?)I enjoyed this book and think that a lot of teens will like it as well. Kathleen is a very empathetic character. I truly wanted her to find her brother but understood the dilemma of what that might mean in all of the other realities.
    • 4/5
      When seventeen year-old Kathleen's brother is dies in a car accident on his way to collect her from a party she's consumed by guilt. At the funeral she meets a young man who seems to really see her - and suddenly she finds herself shifting between alternate realities and alternate versions of herself. She sets out to find a version of reality in which her brother didn't die. As reality blurs, her only stable point is Luke, the man from her brother's funeral - but when Luke turns out to be something other than he seemed, Kathleen is suddenly adrift with no way to go back and undo the choices she's made.Unusual and griping. Jacobs explores the grieving process in a unique manner, showing rather than telling how various choices affect a life's outcome. Teens should be able to relate to Kathleen's choices. I did find Luke's age in relation to Kathleen's a bit disturbing, however.