Dream Rooms

Dream RoomsAuthor: River Halen ISBN: 9781771667784 Publisher: Book*hug Press Year first published: 01 Mar 2023 Pages: 200 Format: Paperback softback Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface

is a veteran of past wars

'Why aren't there more hardcore songs about seeing your therapist

With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country house of his enigmatic and unpredictable aunt Gwenny for an Easter holiday visit

the razor gangs and brothels

from breakfast pains au chocolat to the indulgent Mont-blanc in the evening

of being compassionate

and meaningful

but when she's drawn to the small Montana town of Bane Falls with the death of her late uncle and his estate to handle

looking at animal acts from touring menageries to theatrical performances from the 1820s to the 1910s

readers will learn how to:

but that interest rarely translates into influence

Soon friendship develops into love