"Walker's roving fictive eye by turns probes characters' innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot." --O: The Oprah Magazine
"[Walker's] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia." --People (Book of the Week)
"Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep." --The New York Times Book Review
"2019's first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity." --Jezebel
"This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker's sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting--of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity." --Entertainment Weekly