Twins Chaya and Maya take turns telling their story. Maya is wound tightly and is spiraling with some mental health concerns. Chaya develops some strategies to get her to reconnect but she realizes her sister needs more help than she can give.
This leads to a rift between the two very close sisters.

Chaya branches out to develop new interests because she believes that competition is making her sister's stree and perfectionism worse. ( )

Identical twins Maya and Chaya look alike and have similar interests, but inside they are different: Maya has anxiety, and believes that she brought seven years of bad luck on her family when she broke a mirror. Chaya wants Maya to get help for her anxiety, but when Maya refuses to tell their parents, Chaya decides the best thing she can do for her sister is to allow her to shine on her own - so Chaya changes up her activities, her music, and her friendships. But Maya doesn't understand why Chaya is changing, and the sisters begin to grow apart. They decide to switch places at their summer camp for a bet: the winner gets to decide where they'll both go to high school. But they don't fool their parents, their little brother Neel, or their best friends, Anisa and Jay, and eventually the truths come out.

Quotes

Sometimes she drowns
in possibilities. (8)

How can we make amends
for something we did
before we were born?
From lives
we can't remember? (25)

I prefer music
to words.
Music can go places
words can't reach. (37)

If I think of all the bad things
that could happen,
maybe
they won't.
I'm constantly aware
of danger in the air. (81)

Mistakes are just the beginning
of getting things right (Dad to Maya, 176)

I'm scared of lots of things, he says.
I just try anyway. (Jay to Chaya-pretending-to-be-Maya, 280)

There is music in the pauses
between notes.
There is life in the pauses
between moments
when you don't know
if anything
will ever be the same. (313) ( )