Michael Dirda reviews ‘This Shared Dream,’ by Kathleen Ann Goonan

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Many people are convinced that Washingtonians — or at least those who work for the federal government — don't actually live on the same planet as the rest of the country. Kathleen Ann Goonan's "This Shared Dream" suggests that this view is almost right. This excellent science fiction novel is part "Inception," part "Back to the Future," part "Jumanji" — and it takes place almost entirely in Washington and Northern Virginia.

When the novel opens in 1991, Sam Dance, an engineer, and his wife, Bette, a Montessori teacher, have been missing for a long time. First, Bette simply vanished in 1963; then, more than a decade later, Sam did the same. No one knows why they disappeared or whether they are alive. The couple did leave behind a rambling old house, with a perennial trust set up for its maintenance and care. They also left behind three now grown children, Jill, Brian and Megan, who have been more or less scarred by the mysteries surrounding their parents' lives and their own childhoods.

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 11 Aug, 2011

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