![]() Sunken boats and other ancient items emerge from the receding waters. There is drought in California, and the book’s fictional college sits by a lake that’s evaporating. Global warming has a role to play in “The Dreamers,” too. ![]() Dan Hawk Photography LLCįor another, Walker’s first novel tapped neatly into our fears about the melting of the permafrost. It seemed awfully tepid, even to my children, for a novel about the likely end of the world. We didn’t return to the book for the drive home. I can’t say that I read “The Age of Miracles,” but I did listen to the audio version with my family on a long summer drive. That book, narrated by a sixth-grade girl, was about what would happen if the earth’s rotation slowed and parts of the planet crisped up and bubbled, like the surface of a crème brûlée. It’s a gift she displayed in her best-selling and well-reviewed first novel, “The Age of Miracles” (2012). Walker has a gift for spooling out these kinds of details, as if we are kittens and she is trailing string. ![]() If and when they awaken, what news will they have to bring? ![]() Mencken said that the ideal way to knock down any infectious disease is to “shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.” The president in this novel isn’t going to order that to happen, is he?ĭoctors determine that these sleepers are dreaming intensely, as if taking part in a communal screening of a Stanley Kubrick movie. ![]()
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