In What World by Bridget Morrissey

Rivalry Gets a Multiverse

In What World reunites two former high-school rivals in their thirties, then throws them through a succession of alternate universes. Their mission is to find a beloved drama teacher who has disappeared, but every new reality also reveals another version of the relationship they might have had.

Friends Here, Lovers Somewhere Else

The pair confront possibilities that their original lives never allowed: friendship, romance, or something harder to name. Bridget Morrissey turns the multiverse into an emotional pressure test, using each reality to ask whether old assumptions still hold when the rest of the world changes around them.

A Missing Teacher Sets the Rules

Finding their teacher is not optional; it is the only route home. The farther the search carries them from their own reality, the more the adventure threatens to alter what “home” will mean if they finally reach it.

The Life Waiting After the Mission

The clever hook is that success cannot simply reset these characters. After seeing who they could be to one another, returning to their old lives may prove more complicated than crossing dimensions in the first place.