In the hospital, being treated for cervical cancer, Mia meditates on her
life, her ex-girlfriend, and the state of her sanity. This heartbreaking
autobiographical novel dramatizes the brutality of disease and its
effects on both mind and body. Ultimately, Let Me Sleep Until It Is
Just a Dream is an examination--as Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
writes--of what a person is when "all she has left is language."
Stifoss-Hanssen's debut is a powerful piece of work, whose images and
insights will remain in the mind for a long time.