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For your reading list  Credit: Vintage; Dan Hawk I feel like there have been two types of people throughout this pandemic — those who can't stop consuming dystopian media, and those who want nothing to do with it. I've mostly been in the latter. But when I saw Karen Russell's novella Sleep Donation was being released in paperback for the first time — it was a digital-only release when it first published in 2014 — I couldn't ignore it. And then I couldn't stop reading it.
It follows Trish Edgewater, a top recruiter in the Slumber Corps. She's the best when it comes to canvassing and cold-calling, convincing strangers to donate their sleep to one of the millions of insomniacs who will die without it. These insomniacs are victims of a quickly spreading, little understood, excruciating disease, and sleep donation is the closest thing to a cure, albeit an imperfect one. The wealthy brothers who founded Slumber Corps speak as if they were missionaries, proselytizing not only to potential donators but also, and perhaps more importantly, to recruiters. But Trish (whose sister died of the plague before sleep donation was available) starts to lose faith when she's asked to continuously collect from a baby discovered to be a universal donor, at the same time as another donor's infectious nightmare wreaks havoc around the world.
It's a tense but captivating read, eerie in its prescience: It's impossible not to think of the past nine months as Russell chronicles the progression of the disease, the initial skepticism followed by widespread death followed by backlash against those working to cure it. But it's also an almost philosophical meditation on dreams and consciousness, and a moving examination of love and empathy. It's out September 29. Preorder your copy now. —Arianna Rebolini
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