This high concept novel tasks three characters with confronting the events that have defined their lives. O'Halloran Schwarz draws on her experiences as an ER doctor, and wrote the predecessor to "The Possible World" thirty years prior to it.
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz published her first novel, Near Canaan, while she was studying at medical school. Her second novel, The Possible World, was published nearly thirty years later. She currently
lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.