written with symphonic sweep.” - The New York Times Book Review “ gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.” - People (Book of the Week) the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.” - O: The Oprah Magazine
“Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. 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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”- Entertainment Weekly.An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.We dipped our fingers in the wet cement, and we wrote the truest, simplest things we knew - our names, the date, and these words: We were here.NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE Here the remnants of clothing and dishware, here the burial grounds, here the mounds of earth that were once people's homes.īut among the artifacts that will never be found - among the objects that will disintegrate long before anyone from elsewhere arrives - is a certain patch of sidewalk on a Californian street where once, on a dark afternoon in summer at the waning end of the year of the slowing, two kids knelt down together on the cold ground. Here the deposits of iron where giant steel structures once stood, shoulder to shoulder in rows, a city. Here the indentations suggesting a vast network of roads. We wondered what thise visitors would find here. “Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the future, after all the humans are gone and all the asphalt has crumbled and peeled away.
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