On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

Tara Selter, an antiquarian bookseller living in northern France, slips out of ordinary time and finds herself waking each morning to the same day, the eighteenth of November. For everyone around her, including her husband Thomas, each day is new and never lived before, but Tara carries the accumulated memory of every repetition. She has lived the day more than a hundred times. She memorizes its events down to the second, tests whether her actions leave any trace, and watches the distance grow between herself and a husband who wakes each morning without her. The first volume of a planned seven-book sequence, the novel is a hushed meditation on time, language, human connection, and what it means to exist when the calendar has stopped moving for you alone.