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.
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.
