Summary

Note: For the purposes of this study guide, chapters are numbered.

In the Prologue, a man leaves a hotel and gets into a car with a woman who is familiar to him, but she is not the man’s wife. The woman tells the man he needs to drink a bottle of water.

Part One opens with a portion of a transcript from a Netflix series titled “Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin!” (6) as Alix begins an interview.

Chapter 1 is Saturday, 8 June, 2019. Josie and her husband Walter are at a restaurant to celebrate Josie’s 45th birthday. Josie reflects on what she thought her life would be like if Josie had never met Walter, a man who is significantly older than Josie. Josie sees Alix at a nearby table and realizes that they are birthday twins. Josie approaches Alix in the bathroom...