Dream State

Eric Puchner

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The kind of book you don't want to put down' Oprah Winfrey 'A rare pleasure' Ron Charles, Washington Post 'I haven't been this dazzled by a novel in a long time' Lit Hub 'A reader can't help falling in head first' Boston Globe 'Gorgeous... It's being hailed by some as the next great American novel' BBC.com 'Already one of the year's best' People 'A totally involving and moving literary page-turner' Clare Chambers 'I loved Dream State. I did not stop reading it for three days straight' Jessie Burton 'Filled to the brim with life . . . a wonder' Andrew Sean Greer Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws' beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a cardiac anaesthesiologist with a brilliant future. When Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, Cece can't imagine anyone less appropriate for the task. After all, Garrett, a depressed baggage handler at the local airport, doesn't believe in marriage. But as she spends time with him and his gruff mask slips, she grows increasingly uncertain about her future, leading to an impulsive decision that will alter the three friends' lives forever - the events of that summer reverberating across fifty years and spanning generations.