I returned to India for the first time in more than a decade (due to American immigration hurdles) where I met several of my aunts (mom’s sisters) who look eerily like my own mother. Unlike my mom, however, my aunts were extremely unhealthy. The state they live in is very conservative, poor, undeveloped, and as such, healthcare is non-existent.
Seeing my aunts made me think how different my own mom would have been had she stayed in India. It also gave me depression seeing how bleak the living circumstances are in India and hurt me to see my aunts so unwell.
Are there any classic novels / works of literature which is about meeting an alternate “you”? Perhaps from an alternate timeline where you made a different decision which changed outcomes?
by BlackWoodHarambe
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Everything Everywhere All At Once is a book recently made into a film. I highly recommend the movie, though I know you’re looking for the book!
How about This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub? It’s sort-of Groundhog Day, but she’s 40 and gets to relive her 16th birthday and see how it impacts her life. It’s not a classic, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Blake Crouch’s *Dark Matter* was really good. Action/Thriller genre.
Peter Clines’s *The Fold* is part of a series, and some (not all) fit the bill. They’re kind of slow-burn mystery / horror
Rob Dircks’s *Where the Hell is Tesla?* (And sequels) are short and very funny. Comedy/Adventure
That’s all that I’ve read.