After a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence. Told from three perspectives: Chief of Police Mays tries to keep order, teenaged tourist Cort and her friends compete in a dangerous social media contest for the most hours awake, while local physician and former Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Sam Carlson battles his guilt over a student's suicide and the blurriness of his own insomnia, to try to treat the sleepless -- until he and the child must flee the violent mob that blames the child for the epidemic.
Call No.
A Fre
ISBN
9781705001301
Accession No.
2020633
Member Library Holdings
RPL c.3 07/21
VPL c.1 07/21
WV c.2 07/21
Publisher
Prince Frederick, Maryland : Recorded Books, Inc., 2020
