Summary

In "The Sleep Van," the Slumber Corps team fears that Mr. and Mrs. Harkonnen will stop allowing their baby, or Baby A, to donate her sleep. The Corps is run by brothers Jim and Rudy Storch. They left their initial business in toilets "at the height of the Insomnia Crisis" to form the Corps (4). Trish has worked with them for seven years. Though she does not spend time "with them outside work," Trish knows the brothers well (4).

Their trailer, or Mobi-Office, is stationed in a Pennsylvania city, where "REM-sleep deficits" are exponentially high (5).

Trish works as a recruiter. Everyone knows she is the best on the team. When Jim and Rudy hear about Mr. Harkonnen's threat to stop their donations, they urge her to speak to the couple. Trish is the best recruiter because she uses her sister Dori's death from insomnia to...