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The Dreamers
by Karen Thompson Walker
A highly contagious illness sweeps a college town causing people to fall asleep and not wake up. Some are taken to hospitals and kept alive with fluids, some die of dehydration, some sleep for weeks and have vivid alternate lives, some awake and are changed. Lyrically written, but ...? That was it, that was the story. I thought it was a great set up that I kept expecting to go somewhere or at least make profound points about illness or the "reality" we create in our minds. She leaves that to us, briefly skimming those ideas. I'm usually all about the writing and characters, but this felt like a highly effective set up and I was waiting for the main event.