Also, the 'shy' 'meek' 'reluctant' Asian girl stereotype is so overdone. Unfortunately the story gets drawn out and their individual stories are spread so thin that I did find it hard to have an emotional connection to any. The representation of the dynamics of multiple partnerships, college life and siblings is introduced really well. This is a neat concept for a speculative fiction but I must admit it would be a far better short story or novella. I'm giving it three stars, but don't let that discourage you, I almost gave it 4. Have you read or heard Master Zhao: The Tale of an Ordinary Time Traveler? It's 96 minutes long and I'd like if it were a bit longer, but this story? dang I wish it were a lot shorter.

This book achieves dazzling, aching humanity.' ( Entertainment Weekly)

Walker's sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting - of a true, ethereal beauty. The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.' ( Jezebel) 'Powerful and moving.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. They are dreaming heightened dreams - but of what? 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. 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 ) New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceĪn 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.

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