Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging,including a specially designed coverstamped casestunning endpapersgilded edgessewn-in ribbon bookmarkand new bonus content! A spirit-liftinghigh-concept speculative blockbuster debut set in a world where people can find out how much time they have left to live. Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake updrink a cup of coffeeand head out. But todaywhen you open your front doorwaiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tentsevery person on every continent receives the same box. In an instantthe world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls aparteveryone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? Andif sowhat will they do with that knowledge? The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwinedpen pals finding refuge in the unknowna couple who thought they didn’t have to rusha doctor who cannot save himselfand a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything. Enchanting and deeply upliftingThe Measure is an ambitiousinvigorating story about familyfriendshiphopeand destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.