description: When seventeen-year-old Iris Moon, a poor white babysitter, joins the Reese household--Alice, her physician husband Will, and two small daughters--the Reese's seemingly idyllic marriage is drifting toward sadness and dissolution
language: English
title: Dreams of Sleep
titlecomplete: Dreams of Sleep
genres: Southern, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 262
places: Charleston, South Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: The Viking Press