Before We Wake (a Graphic Novel)

With the dreaminess of Lore Olympus and the magic of The Girl from the Sea, here is an ethereal, paranormal romance that plays out between a waking life that feels muted and a world of lucid dreams that sparkles in full color.

Haunted by a recurring dream, Alicia borrows a book about lucid dreaming, and soon learns to take control of her sleeping life. She welcomes the arrival of her best friend's boyfriend in her dreamworld, and soon sparks start to fly. But then he admits, when they are both awake, that he remembers everything that happened while they were asleep. Suddenly, Alicia's dream life has become as complicated as her waking one.

In this electrifying graphic novel, Glock whisks readers on a head-spinning romantic dream odyssey, exploring the ways in which we hold ourselves back--and what it will take to let our wildest dreams come true.

Author: Sophia Glock
Publisher: Little, Brown Ink
Published: 02/24/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780316459037
ISBN10: 0316459038
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Coming of Age
- Young Adult Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Romance

About the Author

Sophia Glock is a cartoonist and the author of the graphic memoir Passport. Her comics and cartoons have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Narratively, and Time Out New York. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies including, Ink Brick, Digestate, and The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1. Her collection of comics Born, Not Raised was selected to be included in The Society of Illustrators Cartoon and Comics Art Annual 2016 and her short comic The Secrets in My Mother's Nightstand was shortlisted for The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year in 2016. She is also the author of The Lettuce Girl, SemiSolid, Over Ripe and Passport: Fig. She currently lives in Virginia.