Book Review : The Midnight Library
In the realm of speculative fiction and novels on the human condition, few authors have used the concept of parallel universes to delve into the psychological effects of our existential crises quite like Matt Haig. “The Midnight Library” is an international bestseller and a charming segway into opening Pandora’s box of depression, anxiety, and uncertainty. The narrative is deliberately streamlined and simplistic, is it perhaps too linear to handle life’s big questions that it attempts to answer? Let’s explore. The novel revolves around Nora Seed, our protagonist who is on the verge of committing suicide. She’s lost her job, her best friend, her brother, and her cat Volts just died. Her relationship is in shambles and she is lost within the midst of irrevocably severe depression, living has become nothing but a chore so she ends it with an overdose of antidepressants. However, instead of death, Nora finds herself in the midnight library — an in-between where people go when they ar...