The Dreamers
Book description
'Riveting, profoundly moving' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
'Beautiful and devastating' Red
'Thought-provoking and profound' Cosmopolitan
Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months...
She sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through sunset.
And yet, in those first few hours, the doctorsā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked The Dreamers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A viral epidemic strikes a sleepy college town and makes it exactly that: sleepy. People keep falling asleep and not waking up. Cue uncertainty, quarantine, panic, denialāall these things we are far too familiar with today. (This book was published pre-COVID.) Walker is a lyrical, insightful writer and many of the passages in this novel feelāintentionally, I believeādreamlike.
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