The Dallergut Dream-Making District - (Dallergut Dream Department Store) by Miye Lee (Hardcover)

About the Book

It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing... She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located, and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced. But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of. Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams. She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, moving beyond the role of dreamseller to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars."--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Take a train ride to where dreams are made...

It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing... She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located, and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced.

But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of.

Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams. She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, moving beyond the role of dreamseller to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars.

In this bestselling follow-up to The Dallergut Dream Department Store, Penny and her crew of coworkers must visit a special dream-making district to unlock new secrets about the customers they lost and hope to bring back. Delving deeper into the dream industry and its customers, The Dallergut Dream-Making District braves a new land in search of answers: Why do some customers buy a dream and never return? Will Penny and her colleagues be able to bring their regulars back?

Review Quotes

"Sweet... While chapters do examine serious topics such as despair, depression, and degenerative disease, the book does so gently without forcing hope as it uplifts....The novel acknowledges life can be difficult but opens readers to the possibility that if they're lucky enough to be in the neighborhood, Penny and the Dallergut staff may be invisibly cheering them on, helping in tiny, powerful ways."-Library Journal

"Seamlessly translated by Sandy Joosun Lee, Lee's bestselling duology concludes, ironically, with expansion; additional, whimsical world building includes extended scenes at the Test Center and Noctiluca Laundry....another dreamy antidote to reality's challenges."-Booklist