Dream State

"Eric Puchner’s Dream State is a melodic decades-long journey on the vector of a cluster of friendships. Puchner set out to write about friendship and marriage over the course of a life, so readers get to witness these characters evolve, in their own right and in relation to each other, all the way to the end. That scope makes the mundane wildly profound. Months after I finished reading it, the characters have stuck with me, and it changed the way I think about life."