The Dreamers

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: You send your child out into the world, and tragedy strikes. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker opens with a series of small-town college students falling asleep—and not waking up. But this is no Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with a handsome prince to save the day. There is no rhyme or reason to who falls asleep and who ultimately wakes up. Not all do. Is it a virus? Mass hysteria? Doctors are baffled. Parents are terrified. And the dreamers keep on sleeping as the town is quarantined, hospitals fill up, and young men and women are forced to grow up faster than they ever expected.