Both of Me

By Jonathan Friesen

Book Overview

It was supposed to be just another flight, another escape into a foreign place where she could forget her past, forget her attachments. Until Clara found herself seated next to an alluring boy named Elias Phinn--a boy who seems to know secrets she has barely been able to admit to herself for years.

When her carry-on bag is accidentally switched with Elias's identical pack, Clara uses the luggage tag to track down her things. At that address she discovers there is not one Elias Phinn, but two: the odd, paranoid, artistic, and often angry Elias she met on the plane, who lives in an imaginary world of his own making called Salem; and the kind, sweet, and soon irresistible Elias who greets her at the door, and who has no recollection of ever meeting Clara at all. As she learns of Elias's dissociative identity disorder, and finds herself quickly entangled in both of Elias's lives, Clara makes a decision that could change all of them forever. She is going to find out what the Salem Elias knows about her past, and how, even if it means playing along with his otherworldly quest. And she is going to find a way to keep the gentle Elias she's beginning to love from ever disappearing again.

"Friesen's writing is...stunning" - Kirkus Reviews

"Friesen's storytelling is laser-beam sharp" - Booklist starred review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310731879
• ISBN13: 9780310731870
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Blink
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 15 years and up

Customer Reviews

Nicely even when it comes to staying intrigued.

This book is as capturing as the description! The first chapter was interesting enough to make me read the second and that's when it picks up. I mean, I love a good twist or suspense story plot in my reads and this is definitely a highly recommended book. I woman meets an obnoxious man one her travels and at the end of her flight she notices her bag was switched with this lunatic by chance they have the same bag so she sets off on an adventure to quickly switch bags with the man and finds what she thinks is his identical, charming twin brother and falls head over heels for him. Soon she finds out the man is the same but with multiple personalities disorder. Perfect read, A+++