The Midnight Library
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- THE END OF THE BEGINNING
- THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
- Welcome to the Midnight Library.
- I just want to die. Life is meaningless.
- THE FLAWED REALITIES
- After a string of other unfortunate events -- fired as a music tutor, reminded of having grown apart from her former best friend Izzy, her cat being hit by a car... Nora Seed decides to die, and she overdoses on pills at midnight.
- IN DISTRAUGHT
- Nora finds herself surrounded by mist, and she discovers The Midnight Library, where infinite rows of books represent portals into different variations of her life. Mrs. Elm the librarian is here and serves as Nora's guide, explaining that the Library exists between life and death. Nora can stay in these alternate realities as long as she desires, but if she loses her will to live in the process then she will die forever.
- LAST AND FINAL BOOK
- Thank you for everything, Mrs Elm. This is farewell.
- Nora keeps jumping realities to realities. When Nora tests out becoming an Artic researcher, she meets a man Hugo Lefèvre, who is also jumping between his multifarious alternate realities and has been doing so for a long time. But Nora longs to find a life to settle down in. From there, Mrs. Elm encourages Nora to pursue less "obvious" paths. Nora ends up trying out a multitude of lives and careers, ranging from becoming a single mom to running a winery or being an aid worker, but nothing sticks.
- "I am alive."
- Finally, Nora recalls how Ash had once asked her out and tries a life where she'd accepted that date. Nora discovers a life that she thinks is quite nice, where they have a young daughter named Molly and a dog named Plato. In that life, Nora has patched up her relationship with Joe, and he is happily married. Nora thinks that this may be the best version of her life. However, when she goes back to her hometown she sees that her absence has had am impact.
- Nora ends up letting go of that life and returning to the Midnight Library as it is falling apart. Mrs. Elm explains that her desire to live out her original life is causing the destruction. Mrs. Elm tells Nora how to exit, by finding the book representing her original life, and the Midnight Library dissolves.
- When Nora is back in her original, she stumbles outside for help (post-overdoing) and soon wakes in a hospital. With her regrets laid to rest and with hope for the future, Nora is able to turn her life around. She works on patching things up with her brother, starts soliciting more students for music lessons in order to make a living and starts volunteering weekly at a homeless shelter. Nora also seeks out the real Mrs. Elm at the care facility to resume their games of chess.
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