A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been
pushed to breaking point giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in
which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body. How far would you go to
never say goodbye? Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Amelia a
once fiery and strong-willed activist can’t bear to see her mother’s mind fade. Faced with the
reality of losing her forever Amelia signs them up to take part in the world’s first
experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients in which Laurie’s ailing mind will be
transferred into Amelia’s healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one. Soon
Amelia and Laurie join the opaque and mysterious group of other merge participants: teenage
Lucas who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah Ben who will merge with his
pregnant fiancée Annie and Jay whose merging partner is his addict daughter Lara. As they
prepare to move to The Village a luxurious rehabilitation center for those who have merged
they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems. An exhilarating
immersive debut from an astonishing new voice The Merge is a personal story of love family
and sacrifice as well as a thought-provoking examination of the limits of control resistance
and freedom in our modern world.
