Impossible Dreams

Impossible Dreams (1976) is the final novel by Pati Hill, originally excerpted as “An Angry French Housewife” in The Carolina Quarterly. The book follows Geneviève, a middle-aged woman whose life unravels when she falls unexpectedly in love with her neighbor, Dolly. Blending sharp anecdotes with existential reflection, Hill captures the quiet disruption of domestic life with dry wit and emotional precision.

Each short chapter is paired with a xerographic reproduction of a photograph, creating Hill’s most ambitious fusion of text and image. An experimental novel where literature and visual art merge.

Now reissued in a facsimile edition by Daisy, Impossible Dreams returns nearly 50 years after its original publication as a sought-after collector’s item and a key work of feminist and experimental fiction. 

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