Others, like a psychiatrist who has left her daughter in L.A. She tells the story of this town through a few residents two young parents who have moved to California in part to leave behind their marital problems, the daughters of a doomsday prepper father, a professor grappling with the decline of his partner, a college girl who was roommates with the first patient and who is in an ambiguous relationship of sorts with another survivor from the dorm floor where the virus emerged. Walker’s prose is hauntingly beautiful, jumping into the future to put Santa Lora’s experiences into a larger perspective.
That fact is underlined when patients begin to wake up, confused because their dreams were so real that they struggle to draw distinctions between fantasy and reality-or between past, present and future. But scientists brought in to study the virus report high brain activity it charts as higher than when a person is awake, suggesting highly vivid and intense dreaming. It’s highly contagious, and some patients die when their heartbeats dip to an unsustainable low. The sickness leaves victims in a deep sleep, from which they cannot be woken for days, weeks or months. The Dreamers opens in Santa Lora, a college town in California, where an unexplainable sickness begins appearing on a specific floor of a dormitory before spreading to the population at large. One of those spots is dreams, which are at the heart of Karen Thompson Walker’s new novel. 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.Even as wild advances in science expand our understanding of the human mind, blind spots remain. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep.
John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ~*~ The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles~*~ Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… Karen Thompson Walker's second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams. ?‘ H arrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written… this book is stunning’ Emily St.
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