The book was about a group of students sharing a university dorm and returning after many years to the same town. The dorm has been converted to a clinic for people who have trouble with sleep. Some previous students return as patients, others as doctors. Some have stayed behond for other reasons. I found the plot confusing and the time jumps difficult to follow. Many times I couldn't tell if the plot was happening in the past or in the present. There were also a few too many coincidences needed to bring the former students back together. And finally, as a lab scientist myself, I am so tired of "the crazy scientist" stereotype character. It was all there: no social skills, secret experiments in the basement, ruthless mistreating of experimental animals and subjects, this has all been seen before and it is inaccurate and unoriginal.