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'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 doctors…
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, denial—all 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 feel—intentionally, I believe—dreamlike.
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