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The Butterfly Effect

by James Swallow · 2003

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Struggling with the psychological effects of his repressed childhood memories, a young man devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body. As he attempts to mend the broken lives of those closest to him, he finds that every trip into the past brings chaotic results into the present, leading him to travel back again and again and causing irreparable damage.

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thistime traveltime travelMore like thisLess of this
Themes
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Subject
psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 413 pages

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