Fever Dream ★★★★★

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★★★★★

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin is a fiction book about an Argentinean woman on the brink of death trying to recount what happened.

I read this on my Kindle as a loan from the library. I read somewhere that this is one of Victor LaValle’s favorite books, which is why I chose to read it.

Amanda is the narrator recounting her last few days to a young boy, David, who interjects and urges her along. Amanda had gone on vacation to a small home in the country with her daughter. Amanda is remembering a conversation she had with Carla, David’s mother. Carla tells of how David was poisoned by toxic water, on the brink of death and she brought him to a green house woman who said she would cure him by half of his spirit leaving him and another half entering. David recovers but is different, burying dead animals and eerily leaving the house in the middle of the night. Amanda thinks Carla is delusional, but as she tells the story, Amanda becomes increasingly delirious and disoriented. She has to recount the story in it’s entirety in order to recall what happened and where her daughter is.

Dude. This book. First of all, I RECOMMEND YOU READ THIS BOOK IN ONE SITTING. It’s not super long and reading it is an experience in of itself. I love stories with narrators that are poor historians - the whole time it’s like you’re trying to figure out wtf is going on. Also weird kids are creepy. It’s like the story seeps in under your skin - a toxin itself - and you don’t realize what is happening until it’s too late.

If you liked Fever Dream, I also recommend Pet Sematary by Stephen King, Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay, I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid, and Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol.

#happyreading

Ms.Bjork