Summary

The author introduces the second protagonist, 39-year-old Nicole, an internationally recognized author famous for writing on Jewish themes. Nicole lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two young sons. She narrates in the first person, describing an incident in childhood when she was watching television and believed she saw herself in the TV as a member of the program's studio audience. She has had a similar feeling in the present, arriving at home and expecting to find herself already inside. She believes it is possible to be in two places at once, and supports this notion by explaining the multiverse theory – that there are potentially an infinite number of universes, where anything at all could be true at any given moment. Nicole is frustrated with her work and frustrated with her marriage to a man who is less...