Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment? On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker\'s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves--a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality.
Bringing to light the drastic polarities dire circumstances often create, The Other Year explores truths about love, loss, and the sharp turns any life can take in the blink of an eye..
Woven into a single story, both Kates discover a breathtaking fragility and resilience in their respective journeys.
The line between joy and loss seems to get thinner with each passing day.
Even as Kate scrambles to hold her daughter close, Olivia pulls further away.
In her alternate timeline, while she explores a tremulous romance with her best friend, Jason, she finds herself grappling with the ex-husband who abandoned Kate and Olivia years prior.
She endures, day by day, in a world without her daughter.
In the reality that follows her daughter\'s death, she maneuvers through every mother\'s worst nightmare, facing grief, rage, and the question of purpose in the aftermath of such profound loss.
Told in parallel timelines, Kate begins to live two lives--one in which Olivia resurfaces and one in which she doesn\'t.
Because in that Other world, in the pulse-pounding seconds after Olivia goes under, she doesn\'t come back up.
How would I live without her? In anOther set of circumstances that hold a different fate, Kate doesn\'t have to wonder.
What would I do if she didn\'t come up? Kate wonders.
But in the next moment, Olivia resurfaces, joyously splashing.
Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment? On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker\'s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves--a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality
