The Dreamers
A Novel
by Karen Thompson Walker
Recommended by Berci Meskó and Olivia Wilde
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl 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 who carry her away, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asle...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
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Berci Meskó
“2/2 In some ways, I could draw parallels between the epidemic described in it and the Covid pandemic we have all experienced in recent years. The book is written really well, it represents high quality stylistically, so I definitely recommend it. | Loving this one”
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