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A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life. Dream State is a wonder of character and craft.
Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less is Lost

Dream State is a gorgeous exploration of time, grief, love, and the way that the commitments we make turn us into the people we becomebrilliant.
Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections

Eric Puchner returns with an ambitious and deeply moving multigenerational novel that follows three lifelong friends and the betrayal at the center of their entwined fates.

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a medical student with a brilliant future. Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate, though Cece cant imagine anyone less appropriate for the task; Garrettdoesnt believe in love, much less marriage. But as she spends time with Garrett, and his gruff mask slips, her long-held expectations for her life with Charlie begin to crumble, her feelings for Garretta haunted by a tragic event from his pastbecome impossible to bury; she soon anticipates the big day with dread. And when she finally decides to follow her instincts, ditching her groom for his best man, their lives will be altered forever, the events of that July reverberating through marriage, parenthood, and, in the end, across generations.

Years later, Ceces daughter, Lana, and Charlies son, Jasper, meet and become fast friends, reunited again and again throughout their adolescence. Before long, they find themselves enacting the very same mistakes that dogged their parents, falling victim to the perennial pitfalls of adulthood. How do we avoid duplicity, heartbreak, and deceit when mortality looms over us all?

With delicacy, precision, and enormous heart, Dream State casts the timeless travails of family in a singular light. Puchner has written a richly layered, character driven novel that is at once a study of the unholy catastrophe of marriage, and a tender ode to the beauty of impermanence.

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Dream State is a delightAn exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love. Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, though Cece cant imagine anyone more ill-suited for the taskan airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlies shared past. But as Cece spends time with Garrett, his gruff mask slips, and she grows increasingly uncertain about her future. And why does Garrett, after meeting Cece, begin to feel, well, human again? As a contagious stomach flu threatens to scuttle the wedding, and Charlie and Garretts friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life shes dreamed of and a life shes never imagined.

The events of that summer have long-lasting repercussions, not only on the three friends caught in its shadow but also on their children, who struggle to escape their parents story. Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, Dream State explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the pastboth our own and the ones weve inherited.

Written with humor, precision, and enormous heart, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West, Dream State is a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence.

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OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK

Dream State is a delightAn exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love. Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution

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OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK

The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying again.already one of the years best. People

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK

The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying again.already one of the years best. People

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2025 Oprahs Book Club Pick

New York Times Bestseller

Fresh, wise, funny, and compassionateCinematic from the outset, Dream State opens (just as if a circular lens were unscrewing) upon a beloved old family homestead, site of a doomed weddingdescriptions so warm and attentive, a reader cant help falling in headfirsta wonderful feast, and feat.
The Boston Globe

A transporting wonderPuchners final chapter is one of the most touching and satisfying Ive read in years.
Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Dream State is a novel you should read Puchner writes about families and relationships as well as any writer I can think of a powerful reading experience.
Chicago Tribune

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**2025 Oprah’s Book Club Pick

New York Times Bestseller

“Fresh, wise, funny, and compassionate…Cinematic from the outset, Dream State opens (just as if a circular lens were unscrewing) upon a beloved old family homestead, site of a doomed wedding—descriptions so warm and attentive, a reader can’t help falling in headfirst…a wonderful feast, and feat.”
n—The Boston Globe

“A transporting wonder…Puchner’s final chapter is one of the most touching and satisfying I’ve read in years.”
n—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“Dream State is a novel you should read… Puchner writes about families and relationships as well as any writer I can think of… a powerful reading experience.
n—Chicago Tribune

"For a big, immersive American saga, deeply pleasurable yet tinged with melancholy, you could do no better than Dream State." —The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2025**

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws’ lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, though Cece can’t imagine anyone more ill-suited for the task—an airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlie’s shared past. But as Cece spends time with Garrett, his gruff mask slips, and she grows increasingly uncertain about her future. And why does Garrett, after meeting Cece, begin to feel, well, human again? As a contagious stomach flu threatens to scuttle the wedding, and Charlie and Garrett’s friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life she’s dreamed of and a life she’s never imagined.

The events of that summer have long-lasting repercussions, not only on the three friends caught in its shadow but also on their children, who struggle to escape their parents’ story. Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, Dream State explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the past—both our own and the ones we’ve inherited.

Dream State: Oprah's Book Club

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