


It opens with a young mother named Amanda awakening in a clinic. Her concise but powerful work is indeed one of the creepier books to release in the past few years, if somewhat unconventionally so. With a film adaptation releasing last week on Netflix, now is as good a time as any to (re)visit Samanta Schweblin’s 2017 novel Fever Dream, particularly given that we’re right smack dab in the middle of Spooky Season. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. From the publisher: A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic.
