NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX "Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Only a few of us read Fever Dream, and we liked it, but we didn't think that much was going on. The book did a quite good job of creating a subtle tone of dread and we were drawn into the mystery of what the interrogator was looking for from the patient and what happened to make her sick. The book centers around the frustration of that mystery -- the entire point is what the narrator noticed and didn't notice, how much significance there might have been in these subtle moments anyone could have missed. In that sense, the book's message about sleepwalking into disaster is quite powerful. That said, that's the whole book. It essentially reduces to a single moment of missed perception and the framing around it. It's a good metaphor, but as a novel, it's pretty thin and there's not much else to talk about. It's an interesting book in its dedication to that message and it certainly accomplishes what it aims to do, but we couldn't help feeling that the novel could have done more. Go in expecting small stakes and this book will reward you.