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Dream State is a delight…An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love. Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution
Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, though Cece cant imagine anyone more ill-suited for the taskan airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlies shared past. But as Cece spends time with Garrett, his gruff mask slips, and she grows increasingly uncertain about her future. And why does Garrett, after meeting Cece, begin to feel, well, human again? As a contagious stomach flu threatens to scuttle the wedding, and Charlie and Garretts friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life shes dreamed of and a life shes never imagined.
The events of that summer have long-lasting repercussions, not only on the three friends caught in its shadow but also on their children, who struggle to escape their parents story. Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, Dream State explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the pastboth our own and the ones weve inherited.
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.
