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The Singular Life of Aria Patel

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Pre-release: Expected May 13, 2025
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For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and See You Yesterday, this captivating and mind-bending second-chance romance explores what it means to love—even across the multiverse.

Aria Patel likes stability, certainty, predictability. It’s why she’s so into science. It's why she dumped her boyfriend before they went to different colleges because the odds were that something would go wrong, eventually. In a life that’s already so chaotic, why obsess over complicated relationships and shadowy unknowns when the scientific method gives you direction and a straight path to avoid all the drama.  

But there’s no avoiding anything when Aria finds herself suddenly falling through parallel universes and there’s no formula that can save her. She can’t explain why she’s been waking up in a new reality almost every day, or why Rohan, and a poem from her English class, seem to be following her through every new life.

As Aria desperately attempts to find a way home, she eventually ends up stuck in a parallel world very similar to her own. She cherishes this new version of her family, and she finds herself unable to deny the yearning she has for Rohan…but it’s not her life or her Rohan. It belongs to another Aria, another girl, and unless Aria can get back home, she’ll have taken this happiness away from someone else forever. And she may never find her own. 
This whirlwind novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed will whisk you through worlds unknown, all while putting a multiverse spin on one of BookTok’s favorite tropes: second chance romance.

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    • Booklist

      March 1, 2025
      Grades 8-12 Slipping through the multiverse every few days has become standard for Aria Patel--until she gets stuck in one of the many universes not her own. Accustomed to imitating other drastically different Aria Patels for short periods of time, the teen finds herself simultaneously struggling to return to her prime universe and settling into the life of the current Aria as days stretch into weeks. Although the rapid-fire exposition initially makes sense as Aria flits between universes, it effectively stalls both the plot and character development for long enough that only patient readers will remain engaged. There are poignant moments as Aria fights to reunite with her world, capped with a rewarding epilogue, but the stretches in between display a lack of overall character depth. Still, the premise itself is ultimately portrayed with appropriate complexity, posing questions around what makes a person who they are that introspective teens will find interesting. As a whole, Aria's story is an addition to the body of recent multiverse fiction that will likely satisfy soft sf fans.

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      March 15, 2025
      A Chicago teen must find her way home after being thrown into a succession of universes. Aria Patel loves physics: Unlike relationships, it's data-driven, not emotional and capricious. Aria, who constantly catastrophizes, recently dumped her boyfriend, Rohan, pre-emptively avoiding any problems before they leave for college. Racing off on her moped one day, panicking over her widowed mother's sudden health emergency, Aria sees a truck crash into the car her mother is driving to the ER. Aria blacks out and wakes up in front of a strange house, wearing different clothes. Her mom is there--but she's not her usual self. Aria experiences a series of different lives before getting stuck in one for some time. She enjoys this latest world--her dad is alive, she has an adorable little sister, and there's an undeniable attraction between her and this Rohan--but she's desperate to get back to her original life to save her mom. Aria, whose Muslim family is cued Indian American, realizes that stabbing headaches, Rohan, and a poem entitled "To Be or Not To Be 2.0" are commonalities in every existence. She uses these clues to try to bend space-time and return home. The rush of the multiple universes and scientific mystery-solving brings excitement to this well-paced story, counteracting Aria's anxious perseveration, and the romantic storyline is sweet. A heart-pounding coming-of-age story of a girl trapped in the whirl of a "multiversal tornado."(Speculative fiction. 12-18)

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