by Roz Chast
First published 2023
Roz Chast opens her dream journal and finds a world both creepy and hilarious. The bestselling New Yorker cartoonist illustrates her nighttime visions in this graphic narrative that doubles as an exploration of humanity's oldest mystery. Chast draws readers through her personal dreamscape while conducting a tour of what she calls "Dream-Theory Land." She weaves together insights from ancient Greeks, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, and shamans who have all tried to decode this strange phenomenon we all experience. The book presents Chast's own dreams alongside the theories that attempt to explain them. Through her distinctive illustrations, she makes the abstract concrete and the mysterious accessible. This illuminating and surprising work transforms dream analysis from academic exercise into personal revelation, promising to spark fascination with the surreal theater that plays in every sleeping mind.
Genres: psychology, humor, graphic-novels-comics, surreal
Vibes: creepy-hilarious, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: exploration-of-mystery, personal-journey
118 pages · Hardcover · Bloomsbury Publishing