This is not a book that teaches you how to fall asleep.
It is a book that keeps you company until dawn.
When the ten-thousandth sheep has jumped the fence, the last math problem has been solved, and the final unfamiliar word has rolled off your tongue, you find that the stars are still bright and your eyes are still wide open. Welcome to the insomniac’s ultimate ritual: rebuilding order amid the absurd, and completing a “Long March” of your own while wide awake.
The author is your accomplice, guiding you with calm, humorous narration as you count ten thousand sheep, work through five years of college entrance exams, memorize the CET-4 and CET-6 vocabulary, and sing ten lullabies. Together, we fight the night and the anxiety of “having to fall asleep.” In this book, insomnia is not an illness to be cured, but a quiet wilderness for adults to cultivate.
If the night is destined to be long, at least we have not let it go to waste.
Dedicated to everyone who faces the world wide awake at three in the morning.
