The Book of Dreams
The hardened ex-war journalist Henri Skinner is hiding from his experience. On his way to see Sam, his son, Henri walks the way without looking and confronts ongoing traffic for the first time in years. He is rushed to a nearby hospital in which he carries his floats, his comatose, his dreams, his life's fairy tales and his secrets.
Since the incident, the thirteen-youth synesthet Sam is waiting at the bedside of his father every day with an IQ of 144 and an passion for science fiction. He encounters there Eddie Tomlin, a woman who has been pressuring Henri to face her passion for all these years, and Madelyn Zeidler, a 12 year old, a coma patient such as Henri and the only traffic accident victim who has murdered her father. When these four very different men struggle — for hope, courage, for life — they are inextricably tied together, facing the tragedy of loss and first love side by side.
The Book of Dreams is a tender reflection on memory, liminality and empathy, asking with grace and gravity what really means us in lives when we have gone. A revealing, urgently human story that looks at what we consider serious and painful together with light and whimsical.
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