This review has been updated to remove a spoiler. Serle’s whimsical tale is book club catnip. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. It’s the same nightDecember 15but 2025, five years in the future. While the plot hinges on well-worn tropes, the deadpan prose highlights the author’s keen sense of irony. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. She senses a mutual recognition, and, after Bella receives devastating news, Dannie and Aaron grow closer. On a rainy day in June 2025, she meets up with Bella, now a successful art dealer, and is stunned to find her accompanied by Aaron, the man from her dream. Upon waking, Dannie begins to second-guess her regimented course, and as the years pass, she puts off the marriage. In her dream, it’s the year 2025 and she lives with a man named Aaron Gregory. After accepting the proposal, Dannie slips into a deep sleep and dreams of an alternate future, where everything is off-kilter. Dannie expects to get married by the time she’s 30 right on track, David proposes, giving Dannie a ring picked out by her best friend Bella. At 28, Dannie Kohan lives happily with her boyfriend, David, in a Manhattan apartment and is poised to land her dream job as a lawyer at a top firm. Serle’s bewitching story of love and friendship (after The Dinner List) centers on a young woman who plans her life down to the minute until fate gets in the way.
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