Karen Thompson Walker is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers. “This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.” “When one’s life seems broken beyond repair, there remains one last move: a person can at least shut her eyes.” “Who are we to say that they are not right now dreaming a better world?” “To close one’s eyes can be an act of survival.” 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. They are dreaming heightened dreams-but of what? Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. 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, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as 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 dorm room, falls asleep-and doesn’t wake up. 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.Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 29 minutes When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. 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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