Ask a Bookseller: 'The Measure'

Ask a Bookseller · Mar 4, 2023 · 2m

What’s the most un-put-down-able book you’ve read recently? For Susan Kehoe of Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, Del., the answer was Nikki Erlick’s debut novel “The Measure.” The premise for the story is simple: on the same day everywhere in the world, everyone over age 21 finds a box on their doorstep with a string inside. That string, as scientists soon determine, is the precise measure of how many days they have left to live. The questions and decisions those strings ignite are, understandably, complex. Some people choose not to look. A political movement forms against short-stringers…