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The Dreamers
First published 2019
About the book
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 asleep, and then another, and panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. As the number of cases multiplies, classes are canceled, and stores begin to run out of supplies. A quarantine is established. The National Guard is summoned.
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Mei, an outsider in the cliquish hierarchy of dorm life, finds herself thrust together with an eccentric, idealistic classmate. Two visiting professors try to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. A father succumbs to the illness, leaving his daughters to fend for themselves. And at the hospital, a new life grows within a college girl, unbeknownst to her—even as she sleeps. A psychiatrist, summoned from Los Angeles, attempts to make sense of the illness as it spreads through the town.
Readers on Hardcover call it sad, mysterious and reflective.
Subjects
Catalogue record
- Author
- Walker, Karen
- Statement
- The Dreamers / Karen Walker.
Book facts
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 978-1-4711-7356-1
4 more ISBNs
- 978-0-385-69246-5
- 978-1-4711-7359-2
- 978-1-4711-7358-5
- 978-0-8129-9416-2
- Records
- Open Library
