Tuesday May 13, 2025
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About the Book.
Dreamscapes I — Betrayals (101 & 202 Nights)
Combining fiction, poetry, and theater, this hybrid trilogy begins as Maia, a writer from the borderlands, finally committing to her life’s work, suddenly beholds the vision of Ondine, a child she had desired yet reluctantly aborted 23 years earlier.
Long guarded in the darkness by Hetna, Maia’s maternal grandmother, Ondine emerges to act as her wayward mother’s ethereal helper, spurring her on to weave a protective veil of stories, under which the two can meet: tales spun from the threads of everyday life — dreams, memories, and sensations that pass through her nights and days. Inverting the diversionary tactics of Scheherazade, Maia thus finds the courage to return to her writing desk each morning, delivering, in episodic reprisals, words that expose and disperse unfathomable truths belonging to their marvelous yet strange and deeply troubled family; tales resurrected for Ondine so that she too might redeem some form of life.
About the Author.
Sara Whym is a writer. She comes from the desert, has traveled far, and survived some harsh winds.
Eager to protect the mysterious source and fragile flame of her writing, she prefers seclusion to
exposure and seeks to preserve a shielded, quiet life at home. She has been a child, a dancer, a poet,
a lover, a wife, a student, a teacher and scholar, and, most crucially for these ongoing Dreamscapes, a
faulty and longing, yet joy-filled, mother.