This breathtaking novel was the winner of the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Signed by the author, Peter Behrens of Brooklin, Maine.

The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's Homeric passage from innocence to experience during the Irish Famine of 1847. On his epic journey through Ireland and Britain and across the Atlantic to 'the Boston states', Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along the way, he meets a lost generation of boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful girls--all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect.

Peter Behrens transports the reader to another time and place for a resonant, unforgettable experience. The Law of Dreams is gorgeously written in incandescent language that unleashes the sexual and psychological energies of a lost world while plunging the reader directly into a vein of history that haunts the ancestral memory of millions in a new millennium.