![]() ![]() ![]() Once Mei had a voice, Walker searched for other characters “who would logically reside” in the college town she created. Walker explained that her approach was to begin with Mei and then “follow the advice of Charles Baxter to 'crowd your characters.’” ![]() Doing it for several characters could overwhelm a writer. That is the case for several of the characters in the story.Ĭlose third person can be difficult to write, even from a single character's perspective. “I have an affinity to people who feel apart or distant from others” Walker told Spine. She began with Mei, a quiet college student who doesn’t quite fit in with the others in her dorm. Walker wrote the novel in chronological order, juggling several characters' points of view and doubling down on that challenge by writing them in close third person, and in the present tense. The book wraps readers in a tranquil dream while keeping them turning the pages to uncover the cure. Soon, the disease extends outside the dorm walls. And so much of this life will remain always beyond her understanding, as obscure as the landscape of someone else’s dreams.Īuthor Karen Thompson Walker's new novel The Dreamers, out last month, is set in the fictional college town of Santa Lora, California, where a mysterious virus has arrived in a college dorm, placing its victims in a perpetual dream state. ![]()
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