She eventually discovers he is also a dream catcher. Janie visits her father several more times at the hospital and slips back into his dream, although it takes a great physical and mental toll on her. He also has notes around the house and on his computer about “Morton’s Fork,” a term which denotes a dilemma in which there is no good outcome.

His only friend was the UPS driver who delivered and picked up his packages. Despite having attended college, he didn’t work outside the home but made a living buying and selling things on the Internet. Besides dealing with her dying father and alcoholic mother, she must decide if she’s going to try and live as normal a life as possible until her body is crippled or separate herself from everyone, including Cabel, so she no longer slips into peoples’ dreams.Ĭurious about her newfound father, Janie finds Henry’s house and searches for clues about his identity. With great effort, she pulls herself from the dream and allows Cabel to comfort her until her body can function again.ĭuring the following week, Janie struggles with all the changes and decisions she must make. When Janie finally goes into his room, she is assaulted by his dream. Although conscious when he first came to the hospital, Henry Feingold is now comatose and unresponsive. It turns out that Janie’s mother is fine, but the father Janie never knew, is dying. They find Carrie in the ICU waiting room. Janie can’t reach Carrie, so Cabel immediately takes Janie home.

Another says that Carrie took Janie’s mom to the hospital. They are frantic and somewhat incoherent - something about Janie’s mom wandering around the front yard, drunk, looking for Janie. Two days after arriving at the cabin, Janie checks her cell phone and finds several messages from her best friend, Carrie. The knowledge plagues not only Janie’s thoughts, but also Cabel’s dreams. Miss Stubin, a deceased dream catcher, left a notebook explaining that Janie will eventually be blinded and crippled because she goes in and out of other people’s dreams.

She’s learned how to manipulate the outcome of some dreams and pull herself out of others, but she can’t fight the toll this ability takes on her body. Although the vacation takes her away from the prying eyes of the town, she can’t escape the effects of being a dream catcher - a person who slips into other people’s dreams. Her boyfriend, Cabel, whisks her away to a lakeside cabin his brother and sister-in-law have rented so she can find peace. Eighteen–year-old Janie Hannagan needs a break from the pressure of her newfound celebrity status as the girl who helped break up a sex ring at her high school.

Gone lisa mcmann