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If A Russian Doll Looked Into A Black Mirror ... You'd Have This Novel

In Sarah Zachrich Jeng's debut thriller The Other Me, a young woman wanders away from a boring birthday party and finds herself in a different life, with a husband and family she didn't have before.
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Some of the promotions for , Sarah Zachrich Jeng's debut thriller, reference the hit British series , in which modern technology frequently leaves its human hoist by their own petards. That works, because Jeng's story centers on a company known as gnii (pronounced "Genie") that writes time-travel code, code that slams protagonist Kelly Holter from a disappointing 29th-birthday celebration to a different 29th-birthday celebration, one in which she has a husband, new family

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