In a near-future Portland overwhelmed by ecological crisis, a man named George Orr discovers that his dreams literally change reality, and a psychiatrist begins exploiting this ability to try to reshape the world according to his own utopian vision—with increasingly catastrophic and unintended consequences. A tightly plotted philosophical novel drawing on Taoist thought, the story meditates on the dangers of imposing one's will on a complex reality. Unsettling, elegant, and deeply wise.