A grieving daughter's search for her mother becomes a journey across
alternate realities in this wildly entertaining, reality-bending
thriller from the author of The Shining Girls.
It was a game they played; the other worlds, the other lives. It was
part of her mom's grand delusions. It wasn't real. Unless it was...
Bridget Kittinger has always been paralyzed by choices. It has a lot to
do with growing up in the long shadow of her mother, Jo, a troubled
neuroscientist. Jo's obsession with one mythical object, the
"dreamworm"--which she believed enabled travel to other worlds--led to
their estrangement.
Now, suddenly, Jo is dead. And in packing up her home, Bridge finds a
strange device buried deep in Jo's freezer: the dreamworm. Against all
odds, it actually can open the door--to all other realities, and to
all other versions of herself, too. Could Bridge find who she should
be in this world, by visiting the others? And could her Jo still be
alive somewhere? But there's a sinister cost to trading places, and
others hunting the dreamworm who would kill to get their hands on it . .
.
Across a thousand possible lives, from Portland to Haiti, from Argentina
to the alligator-infested riverways of North Carolina, Bridge takes
readers on a highly original thrill ride, pushing the boundaries of what
we know about mothers and daughters, hunters and seekers, and who we
each choose to be.
