Dream a Little Dream
Why are there so many books with “dream” in the title right now? And novels about dreams, delusions, alternate realities, time warps, loopholes, and simulations? Once you unpack that, come on by and let’s chat. In the meantime, here’s a little blurb on some “dreamy” new fiction.
THE DREAM HOTEL
by Laila Lalami
“Eerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, The Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technology, which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free, and whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.”
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DREAM STATE
by Eric Puchner
“Written with humor, precision, and enormous heart, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West, Dream State is a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence.”
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THE CAPITAL OF DREAMS
by Heather O’Neill
“Sofia Bottom lives in Elysia, a small country forgotten by Europe. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live among their roots have given way to an explosion of the arts and the consolations of philosophy. From the clarinetists to the cabaret singers, no artist is as revered as Sofia’s brilliant mother, the writer Clara Bottom. How can fourteen-year-old Sofia, with her tin ear and enduring love of ancient myths, ever hope to win her mother’s love?”
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DREAM COUNT
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.”
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ENEMY OF MY DREAMS
by Jenny Williamson
“In the last days of the Roman Empire, a desperate princess and a brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance.”
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