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Set eight years after three United States Marines return home from Iraq,

Dreamland explores the effect their experience has on their relationships with

their loved ones and each other. The novel focuses on the reverberating effects a

single event during the second assault on Fallujah has on three remaining

members of a doomed assignment—a drug addict, a depressed artist, and an

anxiety-stricken father —each dealing with their trauma differently. Though all

three are on a path of self-destruction, Dreamland examines the toxic power of

isolation and the redemptive quality of shared purpose.

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