What if one terrifying moment forced you to confront the life you didn’t choose?
In The Book of Two Ways, Jodi Picoult follows Dawn Edelstein, a death doula who survives a plane crash and suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she wanted. As the plane goes down, her mind doesn’t turn to her husband or daughter, but to Egypt, an unfinished PhD, and the man she once loved. When she wakes up alive, Dawn makes a startling decision: instead of returning home, she boards a flight to Cairo.
There, past and present collide. Ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife mirror Dawn’s own crossroads, as she weighs safety against passion, responsibility against longing, and the life she built against the one she abandoned. Poignant, romantic, and deeply philosophical, this story explores fate, regret, and the courage it takes to choose again.
Curious how Dawn’s two lives intersect—and which path she u
