TRICK MIRRORS

These four books spin fictional identities for real people, real identities for fictional people, and slide all kinds of doors in between

Rodham (Random House)

In this imagined personal history, Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife, Prep) creates a universe in which Hillary never became a Clinton.

Holly rvoodPark (Celadon)

Mikel Jollett's debut memoir explores his childhood in the Synanon cult and his path to becoming front man for the Airborne Toxic Event.

Broken People (Hanover Square Press)

In the wake of his 2016 memoir, The Gilded Razor, Sam Lansky plumbs his life again— Hollywood, addiction— for his debut novel.

The Vanishing Half (Riverhead)

A pair of twins separate as teens and go on to live divergent lives in Brit Bennett's follow-up to her best-selling debut, The Mothers.