![]() ![]() ![]() Soon more of the girls on her floor fall under the spell of the strange sleeping sickness, and panic begins to spread. The novel begins with a college student who falls asleep in her dorm and never wakes up. As in her bestselling debut novel, The Age of Miracles, Thompson Walker plays with readers' worries and imaginations, weaving a common fear-of a viral epidemic-with the unknowable mystery of dreams. With lyrical prose and unforgettable images, she shows how people react when their lives begin to come undone. This is the scenario that unfolds in Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, The Dreamers. They wonder: How could this happen? But more importantly: Who’s next? When a mysterious disease befalls a small Southern California college town, the residents start to panic. ![]()
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