Category: Adults, General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Family Friendship
Written by Eric Puchner
Read by MacLeod Andrews
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying againâ¦.already one of the yearâs best.ââPeople
Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-lawsâ 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 canât imagine anyone more ill-suited for the taskâan airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlieâs 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 Garrettâs friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life sheâs dreamed of and a life sheâs 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 parentsâ 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 pastâboth our own and the ones weâve 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.
Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 02-18-25
The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying againâ¦.already one of the yearâs best.ââPeople
Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-lawsâ 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 canât imagine anyone more ill-suited for the taskâan airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlieâs 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 Garrettâs friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life sheâs dreamed of and a life sheâs 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 parentsâ 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 pastâboth our own and the ones weâve 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.
Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 02-18-25