Why do we dream? Why do we dream what we dream?
Novelist and essayist Michelle Herman looks at dreams and dreaming every which way: from ancient dream interpretation to Freud, from the way birds dream to the way babies do, from Jung to contemporary sleep and dream scientists, from her own dreams to the dreams of everyone she knows.
Dog is about how a person constructs a life for herself, about the bits and pieces that make up a life as one goes along, and about the possibility of goodness, always, among those pieces—the possibility of love, and grace.
A memoir from the front lines of motherhood by a longtime writer of fiction, The Middle of Everything weaves a daughter’s memories of her Brooklyn childhood in the 1950s and 1960s, and the shadow cast on it by her own young mother’s paralyzing depression, with a middle-aged woman’s account of trying to break her mother’s mold by meeting her own child’s every need.
Three novellas by a writer who “writes past the point where many writers stop, trusting her characters to deliver aspects of themselves previously undetected,” Publishers Weekly said of this collection of portraits of artists and intellectuals who behave badly, foolishly, and occasionally bravely.
Winner of the 1991 Harold U. Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Fiction and one of the “Twenty-five Best Books of the Year” (VLS, The Literary Supplement of The Village Voice), Missing is a portrait of Rivke Vasilevsky, a widow alone in her Brooklyn apartment, where for decades she never had a moment to herself.
