Dreams in Which I'm Almost Human

Name: Dreams in Which I'm Almost Human
Brand: Red Hen Press
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A Memoir

By: Hannah Soyer

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Paperback | 2 June 2026

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232 Pages

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21.5 x 13.9

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"Soyer's beautiful debut is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how, why, and through what means we construct ourselves."-Cyrus Dunham, author of A Year Without a Name

Dreams in Which I'm Almost Human is a genre-defying memoir of disability, identity, and desire that fuses lyricism, myth, and medical truth to explore what it means to live and love a body defined by others.

At eight years old, Hannah Soyer had no choice but to undergo an intensive spinal fusion surgery, in order to keep her lungs from eventually collapsing. Fourteen years later, she chose another treatment for her neuromuscular condition: regular drug injections into her spinal fluid. But what does "choice" really mean, and how much weight do our choices hold?

In taut, lyrical chapters, Dreams in Which I'm Almost Human confronts and communes with bodily autonomy, medical and sexual consent, traveling abroad in a wheelchair, caregiving and caretaking, appreciating the natural world, family history, bedtime stories, fantastical creatures, Irish poetry, and the limits and wonders of language and love. A bold collection of genre-bending essays, this memoir is an investigation into what we (and our words) are capable of, as we yearn to make sense of our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the worlds we inhabit.

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