The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard Summary
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In "The Other Valley," Scott Alexander Howard's mind-bending time travel debut, Jimmy Fallon's Book Club pick explores ethics and power across dimensions. With a TV adaptation underway and collectors paying $100 for signed editions, this PBS-endorsed gem asks: what price would you pay to change your past?
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The Valley Where Fate and Freedom Collide
Imagine standing at a crossroads where your next step determines not just your future, but potentially rewrites reality itself. This is the world sixteen-year-old Odile inhabits in "The Other Valley" - a place where parallel valleys exist side by side, each containing identical towns with identical inhabitants living at different points in time. Eastern valleys represent the future; western valleys contain the past. Between them stands an authoritative body called the Conseil, which controls all movement between these temporal zones with an iron grip. This hauntingly beautiful story explores what happens when knowledge of the future becomes a burden too heavy to bear, and when the rules meant to protect us become our prison.
A Society Built on Temporal Boundaries
The Unbearable Weight of Knowing
Youth in the Shadow of Time
The Moral Maze of Interference
Breaking the Chains of Fate
The Freedom to Rewrite Our Stories
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