The Measure
The Box There are five of us in a rental car heading from the airport to the hotel. A friend is talking about a book. Nikki Erlick’s The Measure. The premise is simple: one morning, everyone on Earth wakes up to find a small wooden box on their doorstep. Inside is a string. The length of the string is the length of your remaining life. The question the novel asks is the obvious one. Do you open it? ...