The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
A woman between life and death explores all the lives she might have lived through a magical library. Haig's novel about depression and possibility became a global phenomenon that reached readers fiction had never previously found. Its therapeutic directness is both its limitation and its power.
The case against
Haig writes therapy first and fiction second. Every alternate life Nora samples teaches the identical lesson, so the middle becomes a slideshow of regrets with the moral pre-attached. The prose stays at greeting-card altitude, and you can see the ending (choose to live, obviously) from the first chapter. A kind book, and a thin one.
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