A mesmerizing novel about a college town transformed by a strange illness that locks victims in a perpetual sleep and triggers life-altering dreams–by the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles,for fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern Californiaa freshman girl stumbles into her dorm roomfalls asleep–and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morninginto the evening. Her roommateMeicannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics who carry her awaynor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asleepand then anotherand panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. As the number of cases multipliesclasses are canceledand stores begin to run out of supplies. A quarantine is established. The National Guard is summoned. Meian outsider in the cliquish hierarchy of dorm lifefinds herself thrust together with an eccentricidealistic classmate. Two visiting professors try to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. A father succumbs to the illnessleaving his daughters to fend for themselves. And at the hospitala new life grows within a college girlunbeknownst to her–even as she sleeps. A psychiatristsummoned from Los Angelesattempts to make sense of the illness as it spreads through the town. Those infected are displaying unusual levels of brain activitymore than has ever been recorded. They are dreaming heightened dreams–but of what? Written in gorgeous proseThe Dreamers is a breathtaking novel that startles and provokesabout the possibilities contained within a human life–in our waking days andperhaps even morein our dreams.