Trying to figure it out for herself, Claire Googles “Can you scan onto a flight and not get on it?,” as we all would. A further twist: It seems that Eva might not have boarded the doomed plane after all, and Claire’s vindictive husband suspects that his wife is still alive. (As is so often the case, a bad man had something to do with it.) And in the present, it takes us along with Claire to Berkeley, where she is confronted by the complications in Eva’s life. Going back in time, it fills in Eva’s past - her rough childhood, her triumphant acceptance to college, how it all went off the rails so spectacularly. (It also seems great for Claire, since she is now officially dead.) But the Puerto Rico-bound plane crashes, spinning the novel in an intriguing new direction. In a variation on the classic “Freaky Friday” scenario, Claire flies in Eva’s place to Oakland Eva takes Claire’s spot on a flight to Puerto Rico. At Kennedy Airport and on the run from her charismatic, abusive husband, Claire Cook impulsively accepts the offer of a woman named Eva to swap lives.
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