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These Dreams Exploring the solace of dreams and the
fragility of being awake, Barbara Chepaitis has written a
powerful and heart-wrenching novel. These Dreams portrays the
love that grows in the most desolate of circumstances, when the
will to endure is challenged by the inexplicable design of the
world we must live in.
"What would you do if you were going to
live your life as if you only had a year to live?"
When a stranger poses this question in the supermarket
checkout line, Cricket Thompson is jolted out of her everyday
life to face a startling revelation: after seventeen years of
marriage to solid, reliable Jim, and despite her love for her
teenage daughters, Janis and Grace, Cricket is lonely. The
tides of change are pulling her toward something new and
barely recognizable ... an internal shift that leads her to
spend time with a man named Pass Christian, who offers her a
special kind of acceptance and understanding.
But in a single moment, Cricket's world comes crashing down
when an act of deadly violence erupts at the local shopping
mall -- and she faces a devastating, heartbreaking loss.
Through the prism of this surreal crisis, Cricket's life path
is irrevocably altered; without her knowledge or consent, she
has been plunged into the kind of cataclysmic event that by
its very nature forces transformation. For Cricket, the world
of dreams and fantasy comes up against the sting of reality
with relentless force. Life as she knew it has been left in
the past; yet Jim refuses to acknowledge the changes that
confront them both. And suddenly, for Cricket, the love that
Pass has to offer just about overwhelms her....
Exploring the solace of dreams and the fragility of being
wide awake, Barbara Chepaitis has written an astoundingly
powerful and heartwrenching novel.
These Dreams beautifully portrays the love that
grows in the most desolate of circumstances, when even the
very will to endure is challenged by the inexplicable design
of the world we must live in. |
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