Once and Again

Once and Again

Author: Rebecca Serle Listening Length: 6h 49m

New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle, the author behind “heartbreaking, redemptive, and authentic” (Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author) modern classic In Five Years, returns with an unforgettable tale of a family of women with an astonishing gift: the ability to redo one moment in their lives. T...

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She hates hospitals, but doesn’t everyone hate hospitals? The lights, the staccato beeping, the impending, hovering reality of death. Yes, everyone hates hospitals, but people have different levels of tolerance for the things they hate. Marcella has little.

She paces outside her husband’s room. Her mother sits inside with him, chattering on about something to do with the house.

He is awake, conscious, lucid. But he is not well.

The disconnect between these things—his appearance, the reality—is not hard for her to grasp.