Bathing the Lion

Neil Gaiman praises as "Brain-smooshing work. As if John Updike were to write a Philip K Dick novel." A surreal apocalypse novel that tackles a world of domestic strife and fragile friendships.
In Jonathan Carroll's evocative, surreal masterpiece, reality is sometimes better left forgotten.
One night five residents of a small New England town all share the same dream. One of them is even on a plane thousands of miles away en route to Europe when it happens. Some of these five know each other, some not. Their dream is crystal clear and confusing at the same time. It is full of wonders—both impossibly beautiful and awful. What it portends for each of them is astounding. Until now, these people have led relatively normal lives. But eventually from the dream they learn that they came here from another place, somewhere unimaginably distant where they once worked to determine the fate of every single thing in the universe.
And now, suddenly, they’re called back...