Bridge: a novel of suspense - lauren beukes

A grieving daughters 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 moms grand delusions.

It wasnt 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.

Jos 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 Jos 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 theres 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.