I wasn't able to get into this one. I tried, but honestly never could get the hook, it felt too long for me to try and slog through. I"m sorry for not liking it. I won't give a public review as it was a DNF

In the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in mid-December.

Even if this is written in a formal, yet cordial first-person style, I really found myself wondering, 'Is he a vampire, ageless, or a demigod?' Whichever one, Bernard lives in a New York mental health transitional home called Voyager's House and claims to be followed by a curse from one of Staten Island's early settlers, a distant Dutch ancestor that shares his name. Oddly enough, his curse is made flesh when his new roommate, Bernard, that openly admits to being this same ancestor and has the stories to prove it, including the source of the family curse and the fiery origins of his Raritan wife, Angela.

This is a story about a man in  Bellevue Hospital who believes he is being stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, 

This was the oddest tale I have ever read. I actually lost interest and didn't finish it.  It was just too weird

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  From the publisher –

In the Land of Dreams is the story of a man who believes he is being stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, who, for reasons unknown, has returned to lower Manhattan, where he owned a tavern in the 1680s. Eventually the ghostly stalker is taken into the city-sponsored residential program in which our narrator lives, and reveals himself to be his troubled ancestor. He tells a story of violent and irrevocable events that caused a curse to be placed on their family. Both men are looking for redemption, the ancestor through confessing his role in the long-ago troubles and the narrator by finding the right way to interpret these shocking events...   
Oh, boy, what a long and sometimes too detailed book. It starts out well enough with Barndt going into a facility after taking about suicide in an ER because an ancestor is stalking him. Barndt finds out his family was one of the first to be in New Amsterdam/NYC – we know this because the author goes on and on and on about every detail in every little story and occurrence through all 400+ pages of the book.
It is a well-written book but have you ever just wanted to say, “GET TO THE POINT!!!”??? The book is too darn long and filled with minutiae that I do not care about – well written but way too wordy. I can only give it 2 stars as I found myself skipping through it just to get to the end and be done with it!