From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling
author of Less and Less is Lost
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells is a rapturously romantic story of
a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might
have lived.
After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her
long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the
course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918,
1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and
horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at
the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and
well--though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former
lover is now her devoted husband...but will he be unfaithful to her in
this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941,
she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress.
In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its
own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life
will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and
the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?