![]() ![]() The Dreamers features a larger cast of characters, though with equal introspection into their emotional lives. Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers follows her bestselling debut novel The Age of Miracles, which was about a young girl growing up in the face of the changes and challenges brought about by a change in the earth’s rotation and its effects on everything - from gravity to human behaviour, moods, tides and cosmic rhythms. If this is the apocalypse, it’s a quiet, subversive sort. People simply go to sleep deeply and stay that way. There is no sudden catalyst for this sickness, or at least, none that can be found or understood. This unidentified sleeping sickness spreads through the quarantined student residence in Santa Lora, a small college town in California, before it spreads further out from the students on campus and reaches others in town. She doesn’t die she just does not wake up. It starts with a college student who comes home exhausted from a party and falls asleep, only to never wake up. ![]()
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