Dream State

Praise

“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
 
“A masterpiece. Dream State is a glittering, evocative achievement.” —Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son
 
“Filled to the brim with life, Dream State is a wonder of character and craft.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less is Lost

“Lush, immersive, devastating, and stunningly alive, Dream State did the thing the very best novels do: pulled me relentlessly into its characters, its setting, concerns, losses, and triumphs, only to let me loose again with a sharper, clearer vision of the world outside.” —Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test
 
“Funny and wild; some of the most beautiful writing that I have ever read.” —Matthew Klam, author of Who Is Rich?

“Eric Puchner’s Dream State delivers everything I want in a novel: a love triangle, a moving friendship story, a delicious setting (including some of the best skiing scenes I’ve ever read in my life) and rumination about how we search for meaning in our lives…an absolute masterpiece.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple and Swan Song

“Dream State is a gorgeous exploration of time, grief, love, and the way that the commitments we make turn us into the people we become…brilliant.” —Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections
 
“Dream State explores several monumental themes—love, family, identity, human transience, climate change—but always with a scrupulous attention to the fate of individuals, and always with a powerful sense of intimate connection. . .a remarkable achievement.” —Andrew Motion, UK Poet Laureate 1999-2009