The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Harry August is on his deathbed. Once more.

It doesn’t matter what he does or the selections he makes, when demise comes, Harry all the time returns to the place he started, a baby with all of the information of a life he has already lived a dozen instances earlier than. Nothing ever modifications.

Till now.

As Harry nears the top of his eleventh life, somewhat lady seems at his bedside. "I practically missed you, Physician August," she says. "I have to ship a message."

That is the story of what Harry does subsequent, and what he did earlier than, and the way he tries to avoid wasting a previous he can not change and a future he can not enable.