{"id":55785,"date":"2025-03-01T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=55785"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:53:43","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-dream-state-by-eric-puchner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-dream-state-by-eric-puchner\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick: Dream State by Eric Puchner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a>\u00a0to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. Reminder that if you join Simply Held, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey’s latest selection is Dream State<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Eric Puchner.<\/p>\n

Curious what Dream State <\/strong><\/em><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws\u2019 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 can\u2019t imagine anyone more ill-suited for the task\u2014an airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlie\u2019s 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 Garrett\u2019s friendship is put to the ultimate test, Cece must decide between the life she\u2019s dreamed of and a life she\u2019s never imagined.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 parents\u2019 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 past\u2014both our own and the ones we\u2019ve inherited.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em> – Doubleday<\/p>\n

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Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Simply Held\u00a0to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. Reminder that if you join Simply Held, you can choose to have[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,7651],"tags":[5281,9875,9876,5299,6397],"class_list":["post-55785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-simply-held","tag-celebrity-book-club","tag-dream-state","tag-eric-puchner","tag-oprah","tag-simply-held"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-evL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55793,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55785\/revisions\/55793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}