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Dream State

By: Eric Puchner
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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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.©2025 Eric Puchner (P)2025 Random House Audio
Family Life Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Dream Law Montana
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I very much enjoyed this audio version of the book. Compassion, humour, wisdom and wonder. The writer takes us on a long journey from youth to old age, featuring characters that are fully rounded. There's something here that makes me think of Jonathan Frantzen. Recommended.

Completely gripping

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This is a wobderful though some what slow story , took me also a White to get into, but it made me long for Montana

Very good

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Could not get behind any of the characters . Plot was mundane . Some storylines seemed pointless . Relationship between garret and cece was not believable.

Boring

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