Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Walker writes beautifully about the things that define how a society either endures or collapses in crisis, a theme that may never have been more timely than it is now.” —Minneapolis StarTribune Sadly I didn’t love this as much as everyone else seems to. It looked like it would be right up my street – a strange illness overcomes a small town in California and people are falling asleep, not waking up for anything. But unfortunately I was still left disappointed.

a b "Karen Thompson Walker Turns Sleep Into an Infectious Illness". Electric Literature. 2019-01-25 . Retrieved 2019-05-21. With mellifluous prose, Walker traces victims’ experiences (awake and asleep), along with how their family members, friends, and doctors respond to the crisis.” — Real SimpleThis is not about the Dreamers that Trump talks about. It is about immigration, but a person who legally comes to the country and the dreams they have for a new and better life. It is revealed that all of the sleepers in Santa Lora dreamed of the lives they never lived, as well as the past, present, and future. This] book is necessary reading for anyone interested in immigrant rights and, beyond that, in cultural approaches to the study of social movements. Nicholls has written a captivating account of one of the most important social movements in recent American history in tremendous empirical detail. This book simultaneously introduces several fruitful propositions that can push the literature on immigration politics in promising new directions." With the fleetness of foot of those scene-shifters who soundlessly rearrange the decor of our dreams, one setting would dovetail into the next. The bath, almost overflowing, would become Cleopatra's from the film by DeMille. For want of assess' milk a couple of bottles of the cow's brand were used, the contents of which Matthew poured into the tub ... Highly recommended for all immigrants, all who wish or need to understand the immigrant experience, especially regarding people who don’t at first speak/read the language of their new homes, book lovers, library lovers, and the children of San Francisco; this book is dedicated to them.

Walker dips into the theories of Freud, Jung and others now and then in the ponderings and theories of the unfamiliar, unnatural dream state these people have entered into, which is shown by their unusual brain activity. At the same time she brings us into this world, the tenuous nature of this delicate, almost ethereal place these people find themselves in, the sleeping and those who are surrounded by the confines created by those sleeping.In the small town of Santa Lora, CA, on a college campus just like any other in America, a girl comes home from a party claiming not to feel well. The next day she never awakens. As the days and weeks progress others begin to fall asleep unable to be roused. Now it extends beyond the college campus. All the residents of Santa Lora could fall victim.