Meet me in another life A novel

Thora and Santi meet star-gazing in Cologne outside a ruined tower. Or they meet as teacher and student, with Santi trying to encourage Thora's fierce love for the sciences. Or they meet as lovers. Or they meet as parent and child. As lives come at them like waves, some constants hold true: Santi's grumpy cat, Thora's flawed love for Jules, Santi's sister Aurelia, Santi's on-again, off-again girlfriend. As the two science lovers become slowly aware of their interconnected lives and start to investigate the mystery of how they appear again and again after death and meet each other in Cologne, the unfurling science-fiction riddle leaves them reexamining their own beliefs and identities. The gift of this novel is rooted in Thora and Santi's complicated and inescapable friendship and their whirling arguments over fate and faith. Silvey has crafted a steady, satisfying build of a novel, a character-driven set of stories dotted with uncanny glimpses of different worlds, all of which come together and crescendo into revelations that will leave the reader reeling.