She adds that the idea of a "successful" life is fictional, as every version of someone's life contains frustrations. She gives a speech and talks about her idea of life as a tree, with multiple branches being created from various decisions. She discovers that in this life her father is still alive but her mother is not, as she became an alcoholic after Nora's father left her. She is close with her brother and delivers motivational speeches. In one, she didn't quit swimming in high school and competed at the Olympic level. In that life, she finds out that Izzy has recently died in a car accident. She travels to another timeline in which she moved to Australia to be closer to her best friend Izzy. Elm keeps leading her to lives that are unhappy. Instead, she learns that her cat actually had a health condition that shortened its lifespan, so in that timeline, it actually died years earlier. She assumed this would prevent her cat from dying, as she thought it had been struck by a car.
She enters into another life in which she kept her cat inside. She returns to the library, frustrated that this life was not what she envisioned. She learns that he has had an affair in this timeline. Dan is somewhat rude to her and resentful of the things she says. She quickly discovers that this life is less than ideal. She helps close up after a trivia night has just concluded. In this life, she chose to go through with their engagement and also help Dan pursue his dream of owning a bar. In the first of these lives, she owns a pub with Dan, who she used to date. She begins to explore the parallel lives that she chose not to lead. Some are small and concrete, while others are larger and more abstract. She hands her a book titled the "Book of Regrets" which contains all of the things she has ever regretted. Elm informs her that she is in the "Midnight Library," a place in which people are given the opportunity to explore the possibilities within the lives they did not lead. Elm, who appears exactly as Nora recalls her. She wakes up in a strange library run by Mrs. She takes an overdose of pills and subsequently passes out.
She feels that she has no remaining connection to the world and decides to end her life. Reflecting on how lonely she is, she recalls her fractured relationship with her brother and the engagement she broke off. After this, she returns home to find out that her cat has died. In the span of a day, she is fired from her job at a music store and then loses a music student because she misses their scheduled lesson. The story then skips ahead to Nora's life as a thirty-five-year-old adult. Elm, and discussing different moves in the game. The Midnight Library begins with Nora Seed in elementary school, playing chess with the school librarian Mrs.
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