A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge, a wildly entertaining, reality-bending new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of the AppleTV+ smash hit 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.
the dreamworm is weird. and seriously, if I just found a worm, I wouldn't eat it! I'm not sure I believe they are sliding between dimensions but hopefully I'll get more info. Poor Dom, he's just trying to survive Bridge! I thought she was going to kill him with that lamp!
Amber and the hunting - and killing Aiden. What was that all about? so is she a killer for anyone infected with the 'dreamworm'? hmmm (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ okay so it seems to be real that discussion about the amount of parasites in our body - eesh.
I can't imagine finding her mom in another world is really a good idea. I'm not so sure her mom had really switched in that last minute, but that it was the tumor pushing her brain but I guess we'll see
I really like Dom. I'm not sure what to make of Camden. He seems to be hanging around for all the wrong reasons (hide spoiler)]
okay, Caden is making me really nervous. he's becoming a bit unhinged and using the worm to get the music is an odd reason to need to keep jumping. he's the closest example, I think, that we have to the worm making people irrational.
I'm really mad Caden also hid the note from her mom (and possibly the device? or did he only have the one that Joe destroyed?)
and now I'm scared because Dom and Bridge aren't actually talking and the are both keeping dangerous secrets now that Dom has met with Amber - someone is definitely going to die EEEK! (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ the worms were just gross. amazing that they realized that Amber didn't need to kill them all. just needed to watch a movie. I don't blame her others from wanting out of her head and out of being connected to her
sweet justice that Franco killed her AND that got him in trouble too
I liked the ending. liked that Bridge was getting help and that amber took the fall
sucked that Joe was planning to jump again and Bridge was planning to go back in. (hide spoiler)]
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.