Description
In a near-future world where Earth’s resources are strained and medicine has become both salvation and spectacle, a controversial breakthrough allows two people’s consciousnesses to be combined into one body. When Laurie, a woman facing Alzheimer’s, can no longer hold onto herself, her daughter Amelia—once a fierce activist—chooses an experimental “merge” to keep her mother from disappearing, even if it means surrendering the boundaries of identity. As Amelia and Laurie enter a hidden community of other participants—each with their own urgent, morally complicated reasons—their journey toward a luxurious rehabilitation center called The Village turns ominously uncertain. Blending intimate family drama with speculative questions about consent, control, and what it truly means to love someone without erasing them, this debut explores the limits of resistance and the cost of staying together.
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paperback
Mariner Books
Published Nov 11, 2025
ISBN: 9780063446731
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First Published
2025
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Merge by Grace Walker.