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Two years after the fall of Saigon, half-sisters Lucy and Mai find one another in the world of dreams. Mai is the Amerasian child of a former U.S. Army surgeon and a Vietnamese linguist. In the chaos of the American evacuation, Linh and her child were left behind.

Bereft of a father, Mai lays claim to what she believes is rightfully hers - her mother's memories of the doctor, locked away in d... More

Two years after the fall of Saigon, half-sisters Lucy and Mai find one another in the world of dreams. Mai is the Amerasian child of a former U.S. Army surgeon and a Vietnamese linguist. In the chaos of the American evacuation, Linh and her child were left behind.

Bereft of a father, Mai lays claim to what she believes is rightfully hers - her mother's memories of the doctor, locked away in dreams. She steals them away, and sends them out into the night to her half-sister Lucy, the doctor's West Coast daughter by his American wife. A teenager who escapes from her parents' secrets into her darkroom and the photographs she transforms into dreamscapes, gradually Lucy finds herself mystically transported to the half-sister she's never met, dreaming the lush landscape of her father's infidelity.

In prose as uncompromising and sinewy as that of Faulkner, Leora Krygier's When She Sleeps is vibrant with poetic sensuousness. She traces Mai's real and nocturnal wanderings from Saigon to Paris, and on to LA - which her mother had so desperately tried to reach. The sisters' dreams implode as Krygier's linguistic spell carries us to the riveting finale.

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