The Year I Would Change Everything

At fifty-five, Ana has a good life. And a question she can't stop asking: what if?On her birthday in Recife, Brazil, a mysterious encounter on the beach sends Ana to sleep in 2026 and wakes her in 1985, fourteen years old again, with every memory of the life she has already lived.Her father is alive. Her first love is still ahead. The dreams she quietly gave up are hers to reach for again.Ana has been given the impossible: another chance to make different choices. But knowing the future is not the same as controlling it. As the years begin again, she discovers that every changed decision carries a cost, and that some knowledge is heavier than a person was ever meant to carry.How do you find your way back to the man who was your whole life, without simply engineering the room?And what does it mean to be truly present for a life you have already lived once, when the deepest gift the second chance offers is not knowing whether it will save anything at all?Sweeping from 1980s Recife to twenty-first-century Maryland, The Year I Would Change Everything is a luminous, deeply felt debut about memory, family, first love, and the roads not taken - a novel about the terrible gift of being given a second chance to be present for our own lives.For readers of The Midnight Library, Life After Life, and Oona Out of Order.