![]() A college professor who wishes he could have his husband back from the nursing home. ![]() There are two motherless girls whose father, a paranoid man well prepared for the apocalypse, leaves them with a cellar filled with food to last just such a crisis. There is a young family with a baby whose donated breast milk was contaminated. We follow a series of different people and families as they each undergo different experiences of the sickness. They also share that exploration of morality, of how you chose to save some people over others. The shared paranoia, the horror that people feel when their predictable daily lives no longer unfold in ways they expect. I’m glad there is a quotation from Saramago’s Blindness at the start of the novel because there is a connection between the two stories. Slowly, over time, more and more people fall sick, drifting into sleep at times and places that leave them undiscovered, in danger, or eventually found and hooked up to drips and feeding tubes while people wait and hope for them to wake up. It all begins when one college girl, in a small town in California, falls into a sleep from which no one can wake her. What is the difference between what is real and what is dreamt when we can feel and experience things so clearly in dreams? ![]() ![]() The Dreamers is surreal novel about how little we understand of our minds, especially our dreaming selves. ![]()
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