Dreamers

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i> EDITORS' CHOICE * An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of <i>The Age of Miracles</i>.</b><br> <b><br> "Stunning."--Emily St. John Mandel, author of <i>Station Eleven </i>* "A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril."--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br> <br> <b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>Glamour</i> * <i>Real Simple</i> * <i>Good Housekeeping<br></i></b><br> 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.<br> <br> 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?<br> <br> Written in luminous prose, <i>The Dreamers</i> is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life--if only we are awakened to them.<br> <b><br> Praise for <i>The Dreamers</i></b><br> <br> "Walker's roving fictive eye by turns probes characters' innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot."<b>--<i>O: The Oprah Magazine</i></b><br> <br> "[Walker's] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia."<b>--<i>People</i> (Book of the Week)</b><br> <br> "Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br> "2019's first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . <i>The Dreamers </i>is overflowing with humanity."<b>--<i>Jezebel<br> <br></i></b> "This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker's sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting--of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity."<b>--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b>