The dreamers karen thompson walker5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It seemed shocking, but my thoughts were still on disruption rather than danger - if schools closed here, how could we possibly entertain our two rambunctious daughters for so many weeks on end? Days are long with young children, and scented markers and iPads only get a parent so far. I had just read that Japan had closed all of its schools for a month. 28, I texted my friend who is a doctor to ask her what she thought about this new coronavirus thing. (And for the record, it differs in many ways from our current circumstance - my imaginary virus is a sleeping sickness that triggers extraordinary dreams in its victims.)įast forward 18 months: On Feb. I wrote this story based on a lot of research and from the comfort of a time and a place where no such threat was raging. Meanwhile, some people insist that the whole thing is just some kind of hoax. Eventually, the government cuts an entire town off from the rest of the world in hopes of halting the spread. The Dreamers Karen Thompson Walker, 2019 Random House 320 pp. ![]() The stores in nearby Los Angeles even run out of facemasks. ![]() Officials scramble to respond, with increasingly draconian measures, as cases rise precipitously. ![]() A hospital is overrun by a surge of patients. The sickness is too new for scientists to fully understand. In the book ("The Dreamers"), there is no treatment and no vaccine. Last year, I published a novel about a mysterious, highly contagious virus that suddenly surfaces in an American town. ![]()
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