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Book Reviews
(Starred Review) [R]ichly imaginative and quietly devastating.… Walker jolts the narrative with surprising twists, ensuring it keeps its energy until the end. This is a skillful, complex, and thoroughly satisfying novel about a community in peril.
Publishers Weekly
(Starred Review) [A] science-fiction fairy tale about a mysterious epidemic putting [people] to sleep.… What is the nature of consciousness. What mix of loyalty and love binds individuals…: a few of the questions Walker raises in her provocative, hypnotic tale.
Kirkus Reviews