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In Sweet Dreams, Pamela Sneed transforms memoir into an alchemical genre: Here, remembering is also dreaming, while memoir is performative, self-fashioning—a further means of stepping into one’s power. Sneed unfolds with candor and rare generosity the intimate landscape of her life growing up in Boston in the seventies, through her struggles to find a place and a voice in schools, queer communities, poetry and art worlds in New York City during the eighties, nineties, and into the present. Rooted in compassion, propelled by a voracious, exploratory intellect, and animated by a spirit of radical possibility, Sweet Dreams shows us how to survive by opening. This is writing as reclamation and transformation.