num_pages: 232
description: Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand--and perhaps recapture--the feelings that drew them together in the first place, their interior lives are sensitively and convincingly explored.
language: English
title: Dreams of Sleep
titlecomplete: Dreams of Sleep (Contemporary American Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Southern, Contemporary
ratings_count: 262
places: Charleston, South Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Penguin Books