Sleep Donation A Novella Single edition by Karen Russell Literature Fiction eBooks
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future.
A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers the Corps’ reach has grown, with outposts in every major US city. Trish Edgewater, whose sister Dori was one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia, has spent the past seven years recruiting for the Corps. But Trish’s faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter when she is confronted by “Baby A,” the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious “Donor Y.”
Sleep Donation explores a world facing the end of sleep as we know it, where “Night Worlds” offer black market remedies to the desperate and sleep deprived, and where even the act of making a gift is not as simple as it appears.
Sleep Donation A Novella Single edition by Karen Russell Literature Fiction eBooks
This is advertised as a novella. Amazon suggested a reading time is just over an hour. I am a fast reader and it took me two hours. The wonderfully complex vocabulary and sentence structures were a delight to be appreciated and not rushed. I found myself using a dictionary because I wanted to get a more precise appreciation for what the author wanted me to understand. I like to review books and I give a lot of three and four-star ratings but few five-star ratings. This is a five. I haven’t seen such masterful and creative use of language since William F. Buckley (sorry if any political sensibilities got trampled here).In the United States, there is a new illness that is attacking more and more people each day. People cannot sleep, but this is not simple insomnia. The new sufferers cannot sleep at all, anytime; they stay awake until they die of exhaustion. This is the premise of Sleep Donation, a short novel by Karen Russell. The novel tells us the new disease is only present in America although only the US is discussed. Three-quarters of the way through the book the disease finally attacks Asian and European countries. How did it get there? That is one of the mysteries in the story.
Two very rich and successful businessmen brothers (think Warren Buffet rich) altruistically abandon their businesses and form an organization that will help the afflicted. Their technology borrows sleep from those who can sleep and gives it to the needy. If the borrowed sleep is pure, the sufferers regenerate their own ability to sleep. The disease is cured for them. The problem is to find donors who can donate pure sleep. There is only one donor, in the US and the world, who has the purity necessary, Baby A. She is not even a year old when she becomes the sole donor of sleep pure enough to cure the ill. She can donate up to six hours sleep per day. Baby A’s mom is pleased to help; the baby’s father less so. A conflict throughout the story is the father’s unwillingness to allow the continued participation of his daughter in saving the world. Trish Edgewater, our hero, will waffle back and forth on the ethics of using the infant hero Baby A. She will be responsible for convincing the parents of the need for continuing donations by the sole pure donor until such time a clone serum can be developed from Baby A’s donations.
The only problem is that this novel made such a profound effect on me that I am going to have to take a break before starting something new. Anything after this book will be less fun.
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Sleep Donation A Novella Single edition by Karen Russell Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Mrs. Russell has a new and novel concept for the book. She delivers a well written story about a new type of insomnia which is infecting normal people and has cased a health crises. The book is well written, but seems to be building up to events that never happen. The reader is left with more questions then answers, which can be fine if the book was meant to make us think. However the questions we are left with have no use without the books context (they apply to her story, but not our lives), they therefore are just loose ends.
With half the book over - I was impressed. At the end I was looking for the rest of the story. I read the book thanks to a interview on "Fresh Air" and the anther is articulate, clever and humorous, It is a shame she left out the second half of her book.
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I have to say that I was very excited with the premise of this story. I love the element of familiarity. I feel the same type of respect for “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” story as well. As I read I found its similarity to when one gives blood donations; the white Red Cross van on a jobsite. I thought about how they constantly call and email individuals telling them how important their donation is and especially someone like "Baby A" who has 0+ blood! Lol. So when Donor Y comes along and infects everyone with nightmares, I found this to be parallel to the AIDs incident that infected the blood bank and how so many were afraid to give or receive blood behind this. This story is so amazing to me. The whole idea of insomnia-ridden human beings, sleep donation banks or someone being able to donate their sleep and dreams is definitely a great use of science fiction or possibly horror genre.
I became captivated when she first tells the story of Dori and her death. "I remember studying those eyelashes pasted to her skin, at an angle of unrelieved attention. she blinked at me, her thinking slow as syrup, and I wished that she would not smile again, not ever again, not like that, because by that point every smile was an accident, a twitch driven by nothing that I recognized as human. ..."And I hated the sight of her facial muscles pumpkin-grinning on the pillow, her pale eyes twitching, and I hated watching her go speechless under the conglomerate weight of so much unrelenting looking and thinking and listening and feeling, her mind worn thin by the sound of every cough and the plinking moisture of every raindrop, these noises exploding like grenades through her naked awareness-her mind crushed, in the end, by an avalanche of waking moments.” I love the language. I loved her writing technique.
Although I wanted to know more about each individual person named in this story, I believe this is one of the ways Russell keeps the story in novella form by not adding additional backstories and conflicts. There there but you don’t see them, you only guess about them which also brings a great deal of mystery and suspense. With that being said, I still have to say that if I have any pet peeves with this story, it is the ending! I felt as though I was left to fend for myself for a resolution that fits. There were so many unanswered questions. so this works for one thing but not for the ending.
This is advertised as a novella. suggested a reading time is just over an hour. I am a fast reader and it took me two hours. The wonderfully complex vocabulary and sentence structures were a delight to be appreciated and not rushed. I found myself using a dictionary because I wanted to get a more precise appreciation for what the author wanted me to understand. I like to review books and I give a lot of three and four-star ratings but few five-star ratings. This is a five. I haven’t seen such masterful and creative use of language since William F. Buckley (sorry if any political sensibilities got trampled here).
In the United States, there is a new illness that is attacking more and more people each day. People cannot sleep, but this is not simple insomnia. The new sufferers cannot sleep at all, anytime; they stay awake until they die of exhaustion. This is the premise of Sleep Donation, a short novel by Karen Russell. The novel tells us the new disease is only present in America although only the US is discussed. Three-quarters of the way through the book the disease finally attacks Asian and European countries. How did it get there? That is one of the mysteries in the story.
Two very rich and successful businessmen brothers (think Warren Buffet rich) altruistically abandon their businesses and form an organization that will help the afflicted. Their technology borrows sleep from those who can sleep and gives it to the needy. If the borrowed sleep is pure, the sufferers regenerate their own ability to sleep. The disease is cured for them. The problem is to find donors who can donate pure sleep. There is only one donor, in the US and the world, who has the purity necessary, Baby A. She is not even a year old when she becomes the sole donor of sleep pure enough to cure the ill. She can donate up to six hours sleep per day. Baby A’s mom is pleased to help; the baby’s father less so. A conflict throughout the story is the father’s unwillingness to allow the continued participation of his daughter in saving the world. Trish Edgewater, our hero, will waffle back and forth on the ethics of using the infant hero Baby A. She will be responsible for convincing the parents of the need for continuing donations by the sole pure donor until such time a clone serum can be developed from Baby A’s donations.
The only problem is that this novel made such a profound effect on me that I am going to have to take a break before starting something new. Anything after this book will be less fun.
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