'Sleep Donation has a dreamlike beauty while remaining ominous and off-kilter. Parts of it gave
me nightmares' Stephen KingAn epidemic of insomnia has left America crippled with
exhaustion.Thankfully the Slumber Corps agency provides a lifeline transfusing sleep to
sufferers from healthy volunteers. Recruitment manager Trish Edgewater whose sister Dori was
one of the first victims of the disaster has spent the last seven years enlisting new donors.
But when she meets the mysterious Donor Y and Baby A - whose sleep can be universally accepted
- her faith in the organisation and in her own motives begins to unravel.Fully illustrated and
featuring a brand-new 'Nightmare Appendix' this uncanny and prescient novella from the
bestselling author of Swamplandia! will haunt your sleepless nights.Praise for Sleep
Donation:'Russell's ability to balance the quirky and the absurd with psychological
acumen...turns this unbelievable world into something more than dreamlike' NPR'Russell writes
with such assurance and speed that she puts the reader under a spell for the duration of her
story' New York Times'Russell has a keen sense of dramatic timing and an even sharper ability
to turn an internal state into its own weather system' Boston Globe
