Summary of Dark Matter

Jason Dessen’s world is upended when he hears the words, “Are you happy with your life?” just before a kidnapper knocks him unconscious. When he wakes, he finds himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. A man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”

But the life Jason wakes up to is not the one he knows. His wife isn’t his wife, his son was never born, and he’s no longer an ordinary college professor—but a celebrated genius who’s achieved something truly remarkable, something impossible.

Jason is left questioning everything: Is this new life real, or is the one he remembers just a dream? And even if the life he remembers is real, how can he return to the family he loves?

Dark Matter, by bestselling author Blake Crouch, is a mind-bending thriller that explores the concept of choices, alternate realities, and the lengths we’ll go to in order to claim the life we truly desire. This gripping novel delves deep into the power of decisions and the parallel universes that could exist if we only chose differently.