In One Life and Out Another

***Finalist in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards******Winner of The Canadian Book Awards young adult***. When Marin’s parents tell her they’re getting divorced—or in a parallel universe they don’t—her life is split in two.. In one version of Marin’s future she’s counting on scholarships to get her into college far away from her suffocating mother. She’s determined that nothing will stop her but then she can’t seem to say no to what everyone else wants—or yes to Sam seeing as her best friend Hannah wants him too.. Things that this Marin puts up with—a narcissistic mother and a buoyant yet selfish best friend—the other never would. But then the other can’t stop fighting long enough to get who or what she wants. Instead she marks a path through life that nearly alienates her best friend Whitney and the boy from work she won’t let herself be distracted by because distractions like Sam Hanson won’t get her into dance school and away from her mom.. When college doesn’t provide the easy answer either Marin had hoped for she must decide in both scenarios how far she’ll go—and who she’s willing to sacrifice—to save herself.