No Two Persons
A Novel
Newsweek’s Best Books of 2023—Indie Next pick—Amazon Best Books of the Month pick—Audie award winner for multi-voice narration 2024
“That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go…”
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to nine different readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.
Praise
“If you’re passionate about reading I know you’ll be passionate about this book.”
—Liane Moriarty, NYT bestselling author of Big Little Lies
“No Two Persons is the book I am searching for as I read all of the other books. If a book can be given a five-star rating, this novel deserves ten.”
—Mary O’Malley, Skylark Bookstore
“As perfect a depiction of the power of story as one could ever find, or need.”
—Natalie Jenner, Internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society
“What a joy to see the separate parts of No Two Persons leap across time to build its terrific story. When the tragic life of a writer’s brother fires the novel she’s always wanted to write, its path in the world is beyond what we could guess. I loved the power this plot gives to reading itself, that dear and vital realm of our experience.”
—Joan Silber, PEN/Falkner award-winning author of Secrets of Happine
“I am madly in love with this book. Erica Bauermeister has written a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.”
—Nina de Gramont, NYT bestselling author of The Christie Affair
“This novel is written so purposefully, so poignantly and so beautifully. I just have fallen in love with it and can’t stop thinking about the pages.”
—Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books
“Unforgettable. No Two Persons is a beautiful and haunting love letter to the redemptive power of stories and the impressive mark it leaves on readers.”
—Kim Michele Richardson, NYT bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“A very tender, very true book about the power of stories. Why we write them, why we need them to survive. Bauermeister creates a kaleidoscope of beautiful, unexpected ways of seeing the world.”
—Yara Zgheib, No Land to Light On
“This is a novel of almost unbearable truth and beauty and depth. Plot, character, prose—the perfect book. I didn’t want it to end.”
—Louisa Morgan, A Secret History of Witches
“Wondrous and moving, No Two Persons is a love letter to every writer, artist, reader and human who has ever opened their heart to the transformative power of story.”
—JoAnne Tompkins, What Comes After
“Erica Bauermeister’s prose is gorgeous, nuanced, and intimate and will stay with you well after the last page is turned.”
—Anna Quinn, The Night Child
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