A Dream of a Woman

Reviews

“I’ve always admired Plett’s ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last.” — Megan Milks, The Rumpus

“Casey Plett transports the reader from Pilot Mound, Manitoba, to Portland, Oregon, and back, tying together alternating perspectives and places with direct and detailed prose that's both heart-rending and heartwarming.” — Chatelaine

“Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened.” — Xtra

“In A Dream of a Woman, connecting to yourself and the world doesn't seem to come from checking in with yourself and your body again and again. It comes from losing yourself in another and in the process, stumbling along the way into a closer relationship with your body and the world.” — Maisonneuve

“Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness — a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something — groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too.” — Globe and Mail (“The Globe 100”)