The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room, falls asleep and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, is unable to rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. 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.

Those affected by the illness are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams -- but of what?

Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life -- in our waking days and, perhaps even more, in our dreams.

Genres: Science Fiction - Fantasy - Contemporary - Dystopia - American Author