Her choice of telling her mother and the subsequent dissolution of her parents’ marriage was a result of her father’s indiscretion or her action of telling her mother? The novel is full of these experiences of quantum consciousness – counterfactual events. She has the option of keeping it a secret or telling her mother. At age thirteen, she catches her father having sex with an unknown woman. She describes her struggles with reality and how it might have been different if only she had made different choices at the various junctures of the happenings. She also hopes that the change in environments will help her understand these dizzying trips within the various realities she’s experienced. Strange events happen that convince her to reunite with her father in Alaska because she fears what might happen between her and her mother’s boyfriend and his son. As she sorts through her memories, she tries to decide if they are real, hallucinations, or signs of a young woman going insane.

She experiences a world riddled with paradoxes that she finds more and more baffling. The book is written from Delaney’s viewpoint in the 1st person. Is she having a mental breakdown, or is what she feels and remembers the result of a leakage from another universe of an alternate Delaney experiencing the same event? Delaney finds physical proof that contradicts her memory or friends tell her an entirely different version of the same event and how they remembered her participation and reaction to it. As her story unfolds, she discovers that many of the things that she is convinced have happened around her didn’t occur in the way she remembered or recorded it. Delaney is addicted to chronicling the events in her life as they happen and often penning multiple versions of the event. Some Laneys Died by Brooke Skipstone is a novel about a 16-year-old girl named Delaney whose mind is a blizzard of counterfactual thoughts.