This knocks them from their static positions, forcing them to reconsider the paths they have chosen or deciding to forge new paths because of what they have seen. They are going through the motions of their day to day lives, stuck in the rut of routine, until they start seeing their doppelgangers, or the doubles of those no longer living. Most of the characters we meet in Day’s novel are in stasis mode. It adds value to our existence, but it is also something we waste, spending much of our lives in drifting states, trying to figure life out and sometimes, before we can, we reach the end. We have such a complex relationship with time. To the sound of ice cubes clinking in a pitcher of lemonade, and the heat of the sun against the backs of her hands and the tops of her thighs.” To a summer day on her parents’ back deck. “It’s a portal to another moment in time.
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