The Dreamers

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Call Number: Fiction / Walker, Karen, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Walker, Karen Thompson
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Walker, Karen Thompson	4-week checkout	Due 04-13-2024

One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep, and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams, but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life, if only we are awakened to them.

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Good read until the end... submitted by lawrencekl57 on March 5, 2019, 10:12pm I very much enjoyed reading this book about a mysterious outbreak of people falling into a deep sleep and not waking up, but was totally disappointed by the ending.

Unique submitted by Princess Cimorene on June 17, 2022, 8:36am Some might not like the narrative style of this story but it really worked for me. I was interested in how things would unfold and the broadness of the scope made it more impactful.

Strong Author submitted by JJM.Deucher on June 17, 2023, 8:24am Interesting take on a pandemic without hitting too close to home with COVID-19. Enjoyed Walker's writing style and recommend The Age of Miracles as well.