Dream State

A best book to look out for in the Independent and one of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of the year'A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life . . . a wonder'ANDREW SEAN GREER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less'Dream State delivers everything I want in a novel'ELIN HILDERBRAND, author of The Perfect Couple'A masterpiece'ADAM JOHNSON, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son'Brilliant'DANIELLE EVANS, author of The Office of Historical CorrectionsCece 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.Simultaneously following in the tradition of the great American novel and reinventing it from within, Dream State is at once an elegy to the endangered West, a study of the unholy catastrophe of marriage and a tender ode to the enduring beauty of friendship.