A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' JODI PICOULT
Ben is the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others.
The Possible World doesn't shrink from grimness and is as grippy as any crime novel yet is ultimately joyful and optimistic.
In hauntingly beautiful prose, Schwarz weaves a complicated story that spans nearly a century, from the Great Depression until the present day... Full of imagination and nostalgia, loss and redemption.
Compelling storytelling
This beautiful story of loss and memory by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz is a joy.
Full of big questions
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.