Inspired Sleep: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Bonnie Saks's chronic insomnia increases when her life takes a steep dive, so she decides to sign up for a cutting-edge sleep study led by a hot-shot researcher with innovative ideas and an experimental drug that may or may not be good for her. By the author of the Here and Now. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she's pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband.
Meanwhile, Ian Ogelvie, an ambitious young research scientist, is setting up a study of a promising new sleep aid. Their chance encounter forms the backdrop for this richly exuberant portrait of contemporary America, encompassing everything from the slippery evasions of love to the intricate network that binds together the pharmaceutical industry, managed care, and a shadow population of lost, sleepless souls. At once entertaining and philosophic, "Inspired Sleep heralds a major voice in American fiction.