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The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

I have a question about the theme of grief and loss. It just seemed so consistent throughout the whole story and particularly each of the characters and how they experienced it in this different way. And so I was curious if you were writing from a place of your personal experience or from how your language and the sentences and everything was informed by your own personal experience.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

I have a question about the theme of grief and loss. It just seemed so consistent throughout the whole story and particularly each of the characters and how they experienced it in this different way. And so I was curious if you were writing from a place of your personal experience or from how your language and the sentences and everything was informed by your own personal experience.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

I have a question about the theme of grief and loss. It just seemed so consistent throughout the whole story and particularly each of the characters and how they experienced it in this different way. And so I was curious if you were writing from a place of your personal experience or from how your language and the sentences and everything was informed by your own personal experience.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

Yeah, dream state really affected how I perceive my own marriage. When I finished reading the book at three in the morning, I went into the living room where my husband was asleep on the couch and he's been sleeping there for like a few months now because I have menopause and I have hot flashes and I drenched the bed. And he snores very loudly.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

Yeah, dream state really affected how I perceive my own marriage. When I finished reading the book at three in the morning, I went into the living room where my husband was asleep on the couch and he's been sleeping there for like a few months now because I have menopause and I have hot flashes and I drenched the bed. And he snores very loudly.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

Yeah, dream state really affected how I perceive my own marriage. When I finished reading the book at three in the morning, I went into the living room where my husband was asleep on the couch and he's been sleeping there for like a few months now because I have menopause and I have hot flashes and I drenched the bed. And he snores very loudly.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

And also my mother also passed away recently and his father passed away. And so just all the busyness and all the loss that we've experienced, I felt like I needed to put a separation between us so that I could breathe. But I realized after reading this book that what I really needed to do was to connect more with him and to actually put away the cell phone and the computer.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

And also my mother also passed away recently and his father passed away. And so just all the busyness and all the loss that we've experienced, I felt like I needed to put a separation between us so that I could breathe. But I realized after reading this book that what I really needed to do was to connect more with him and to actually put away the cell phone and the computer.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

And also my mother also passed away recently and his father passed away. And so just all the busyness and all the loss that we've experienced, I felt like I needed to put a separation between us so that I could breathe. But I realized after reading this book that what I really needed to do was to connect more with him and to actually put away the cell phone and the computer.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

So my question to you is, when you were writing this book, did you see your own marriage in a different lens?

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

So my question to you is, when you were writing this book, did you see your own marriage in a different lens?

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

So my question to you is, when you were writing this book, did you see your own marriage in a different lens?

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

What part of the book did that for you? How Garrett wakes up one day and he looks at Cece and he says, oh, it was, you know, she was like a plant. Yeah. And I didn't want to wake up next to my husband or, you know, during the day and think of him as something that I had to care for, but something that he really was something that I needed.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

What part of the book did that for you? How Garrett wakes up one day and he looks at Cece and he says, oh, it was, you know, she was like a plant. Yeah. And I didn't want to wake up next to my husband or, you know, during the day and think of him as something that I had to care for, but something that he really was something that I needed.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

What part of the book did that for you? How Garrett wakes up one day and he looks at Cece and he says, oh, it was, you know, she was like a plant. Yeah. And I didn't want to wake up next to my husband or, you know, during the day and think of him as something that I had to care for, but something that he really was something that I needed.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

And we need each other and I need to put away all the other stuff.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

And we need each other and I need to put away all the other stuff.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

And we need each other and I need to put away all the other stuff.

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

So my question is, while you're writing this book, do you see your marriage in a different lens?

The Oprah Podcast
Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

So my question is, while you're writing this book, do you see your marriage in a different lens?