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A "doppelgänger" of his daughter, Kayleigh, emerges. She looks identical, but the details are off—no glasses, no tattoos, and hair in pigtails she hasn't worn in years.

The story follows 34-year-old protagonist, Elara Vance, who moves back into her childhood home after a devastating divorce. The house is old, creaky, and divided. Her father, a retired philosophy professor, has gradually retreated to the finished downstairs den—the "downstairs" of the title. He surrounds himself with stacks of ungraded papers, old jazz records, and silence. dads downstairs laura bentley new

A middle-aged woman returns to her childhood home to sell it after her mother’s passing. But she cannot move forward until she confronts the three “dads” who live in the basement—her biological father (now suffering from dementia), her stepfather (who hides hoarding tendencies), and her older brother (who never left). The novel promises to toggle between the 1980s (why they went downstairs) and the present (if they can ever come up). A "doppelgänger" of his daughter, Kayleigh, emerges

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