NEW YORK Instances BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is changed by a strange illness that triggers perpetual sleep within this mesmerizing novel from your bestselling writer of The Age of Miracles.

“Amazing.”-Emily St. John Mandel, writer of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”-Entertainment Weekly

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Great Housekeeping

One night in an isolated college town on the subject of The Dreamers: A Book in the hills of Southern California, a first-year pupil stumbles into her dorm space, falls asleep-and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the night time. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second lady falls asleep, and another, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as stress takes hold of the college and spreads to the city. A young couple tries to safeguard their newborn baby as the once-quiet roads descend into chaos. Two sisters convert to one another for ease and comfort as their survivalist dad prepares for disaster.

Those affected by the illness, general practitioners discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, greater than has ever been recorded before. These are thinking heightened dreams-but of what?

Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is definitely a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the options contained within a individual life-if just we are awakened to them.

Compliment for The Dreamers

“Walker’s roving fictive eyesight by turns probes individuals’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like truth versus delusion . . [It has] an ideal ambiguous frame for any tense and split story.”-O: The Oprah Journal

“[Walker’s] gripping, provocative book should feature a warning: may cause insomnia.”-People (Book from the Week)

“Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”-The New York Times Book Review

“2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and shifting . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”-Jezebel

“That is an exquisite function of intimacy. Walker’s phrases are smooth, emotionally arresting-of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This publication achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”-Entertainment Weekly