A mindbending, thought-provoking novel for fans of Blake Crouch, Matt Haig and Margaret Atwood, this surprise bestseller will make you question everything you know. SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE LIFE TOOK A WRONG TURN … WHAT IF IT DID?

This isn’t your life. This isn’t your timeline. And there’s a way out.

A powerful piece of inventive and topical science fiction [that] will undoubtedly resonate with readers in a way that many stories reach for, but few achieve. -The BookLife Prize

Rings frightfully true. A precision hit on a raw nerve. -Stella Jorette, author of Harmony Lost

A story of emotional discovery and depth that left me breathless by the last fateful word. -BookBub review

For one man, the past few years have delivered one shock after another. The election of an authoritarian president. The sudden loss of his mother. A series of debilitating seizures. The pandemic never happened here. A fascist coup succeeded instead. And all he can do is helplessly doomscroll on his phone.

Now, as America descends into a nightmare, he’s shocked to learn the explanation for his seizures: He’s in the wrong universe. A drug trial promises to return him to the timeline where he belongs. With his family life strained, his job gone and tanks in the streets, he jumps at the opportunity. But what will he find on the other side?

Take a trip through the multiverse filled with surprises and second chances. Visit alternate timelines where life played out differently, yet one man keeps dying in every one. Travel paths not taken. Question the nature of fate. And search for an answer to the biggest question of all: in a world that feels like it’s spinning out of control, what would it take for one person to make a difference?

Now an international Amazon bestseller, Branches is a look at what could have been and a warning for the future. It’s both a cerebral page-turner and a deeply personal journey through fear, grief and redemption.

REVIEWS

Branches by Adam Peter Johnson is a unique piece of time travel fiction, and for a first novel, it’s essentially a masterpiece. … If you’ve enjoyed Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, or are looking for a science-fiction book dealing with alternate histories and time travel, then I think you’ll fall in love with this novel. -Bookwormex

This book gave me an existential crisis, but in a good way. It’s incredibly thoughtful sci-fi. -Kevin E. Carlson, author of Jade Fall

Several weeks later, the book has stayed with me. Especially the ending, which the author gets absolutely right. He has something important to say. -Paul Clark, author of The Price of Dreams

Part dystopian, part all-too-familiar reality … walks an imaginative line between what we think we know and what actually is. -Stories on Stage Davis

Lovers of alternate histories will find much that fascinates [in] this bold experiment in timelines and trauma. -BookLife

This is sci-fi with both brains and a heart. … A brilliantly insightful debut.

-BookBub review

I did not want to put it down, and I did not stop thinking about it after.

-Amazon review

If you were a fan of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, this is for you.

-GoodReads review