Mei and Matthew help her get to the hospital, where sleeping people are now spilling out from the building and tents, onto the lawn and into the college library. One night, shortly after Grace contracts the virus, Sara and Libby find Ben sleepwalking through their house he has also contracted it. The scene throughout town is nothing short of chaos, with outsiders trying to get through the barricades to see about loved ones and residents falling asleep left and right. The patient count continues to rise as Sara and Libby, on their own, remain hidden in their home. The National Guard comes to hand out essential supplies, but they're also there to keep the town's residents in place so the virus can't spread. The hospital can no longer accommodate all the sleeping patients, so they erect tents around the main building.
They are just three more names on an ever-growing list. Around this same time, Annie falls asleep and Ben rushes her to the hospital. But before long, Nathaniel gets it as well. The college biology professor, Nathaniel, looks on, heartbroken, as his husband, Henry contracts the virus. Ultimately, the school closes down until they can figure out what's going on. Their father, Thomas, works as a janitor at the college, and he must go in and clean Kara's room after she dies. Two young sisters from town, Sara and Libby, watch the alarming chain of events unfold. Meanwhile, two students from the floor, Caleb and Rebecca, sneak out, attend a party, and sleep together the next morning, Rebecca also does not wake. Catherine, a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, arrives to evaluate the afflicted students' mental health and notes that they all seem to be in the REM stage of sleep.
The school puts the floor under quarantine. Soon, others on the same dorm floor fall asleep and refuse to wake. Her roommate, Mei, feels helpless, which is only compounded when Kara eventually dies. She continues to breathe but refuses to open her eyes or respond to anything in the world around her.
The next day, she falls asleep, and no one can wake her. After a night out with friends, Santa Lora College student Kara Sanders arrives back at the dorms, suddenly exhausted. The Dreamers was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, as well as a best book of the year selection by Glamour, Real Simple, and Good Housekeeping. The Dreamers (2019), a science fiction novel by American author Karen Thompson Walker, follows a group of college students and families in the fictional town of Santa Lora, California, where a mysterious virus causes extended periods of sleep and intense dreams.
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