Fever Dream: A Novel

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 - but, 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.