Sarah Brannigan’s life has fallen to pieces at the age of forty-five. Her fairy tale marriage has ended, her job history has been a downward spiral since 2008, and she’s paying way too much rent to live in a tiny room in an apartment that she shares with five roommates.
To escape it all, she walks the streets of New York City, seeking out the hidden wonders of the City. And like many before her, she falls in love with Coney Island. Then one day, she falls asleep on a boardwalk bench after a long walk in the hot sun, and she falls into a dream. A dream that seems to reach into Coney Island’s past. A dream of everything she wished for when she was young. A dream whose effects linger even after she’s woken up.
Soon the dream begins to take over as Sarah uses it again and again to seek escape from her failed life. She’s getting everything she ever wanted: youth, love, and adventure. But as she goes deeper into the dream, she gets ever closer to nightmare.
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Reviews for Dreams of the Boardwalk!
Life hasn’t exactly gone as planned for Sarah Brannigan. Divorce, loss of home, loss of her good job… Now in a cramped apartment with roommates working two crappy jobs to barely make her bills, Sarah has only one respite; her dreams. At night she escapes to Coney Island in its heyday with her dream man. But too much time in her dreams has them leaking out into the real world.
This is an interesting story about living too much in your “what if’s” can take away from your “now.” Sarah is a great character, a smart woman just in a rough patch but not willing to give up. And the ending is not what you would expect.
There are some pretty dark and sexy scenes and the connection to Coney Island is vivid and real, like you could reach out and touch it. Very enjoyable! 3.8 out of 5.
– Lenni
When you start reading this book, chances are you might feel a little confused as to why the author is focusing so intently on Sarah’s walking habits but it becomes clearer as you progress that the author has set the pace of the plot to mimick the stages of her life.
It begins slow then picks up speed by the middle, gets completely crazy and settles down on a beautiful end. I would ask you to not get dissuaded by the slow start, because once you get into the story, you cannot help but race towards the end. ‘Dreams of Boardwalk’ was such an interesting read that I just could not put it down as I absolutely had to make sense of what, in the name of Lewis Caroll, was happening to Sarah?