That, readers, would be Karen Thompson WalkersThe Dreamers.
Ahead, find out her favorite part ofThe Dreamersand the last book that made her cry.
I tried to capture their blind spots but also their humanity.
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Where do you write?In a revolving set of coffee shops scattered around southeast Portland, Oregon.
I definitely could not write a book without caffeine.
It was a difficult balance.
I wanted the dream life of these people to feel concrete and urgent and ultimately consequential.
It would be easy to go down a rabbit hole, obsessing over what I might have done differently.
