A mind-bending speculative novel about fate, free will and a memory that resets every night
TURN: A Novel of Fate, Memory, and the Courage to Write Your Own Story
A book appears on his nightstand each morning, already describing the day he hasn't lived yet.
No title, no author, no publisher — just a finished chapter dated today, recording his morning in impossible detail. Every night the day he lived slips out of his memory as the book closes around it. TURN asks whether the pages are recording his life or deciding it.
For: readers who like a puzzle that rearranges them.
TURN opens on one of fiction's strangest objects: a book with no author that appears on the nightstand each morning, already describing the day ahead in impossible detail. It is a novel about reading your own life before living it, and about what happens when tomorrow is already written and you're the only one who has read it.
Every night, the day he lived slips out of his memory as the book closes around it. He can't remember yesterday, only read about it. TURN follows a self without continuous memory, waking each morning to a written day and trying to work out who he is when the past keeps erasing itself.
If the pages are always right, is he living freely or following a script? Can he change a single word? TURN is a philosophical puzzle about predetermined lives, written destiny and the courage to write your own story, for readers who want a book that rearranges them.
A memory that wipes every night, and a life rebuilt each morning from what's written down.
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One day lived over and over, with a puzzle that won't stay solved.
A man finds a book on his nightstand each morning that already describes the day he hasn't lived yet. Each night his memory of that day disappears. TURN asks whether the book is recording his life or deciding it.
Yes. Daily amnesia is central: the narrator can't remember yesterday and has to rebuild himself from a book. It sits alongside the titles in our books about memory loss list.
No. TURN is a standalone novel.
TURN by Simran Mehta is on Amazon as a Kindle ebook ($0.99) and paperback ($20.00).
