Her second novel, The Dreamers came out in 2019. In 2011 she received Sirenland Fellowship, as well as a Bomb magazine fiction prize.Ī former editor at Simon & Schuster, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. She is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. Karen Thompson Walker was born and raised in San Diego, California. Education-B.A., University of California, Los Angeles M.F.A., Columbia University.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. They are dreaming heightened dreams-but of what?
Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town.
Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep-and doesn’t wake up. 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.An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.
When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. Karen Thompson Walker's second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams. Magine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months…
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