Fever Dream

Today's post is on Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin. It is 183 pages long and is published by Riverhead Books. The cover is black bubbles with a horse head in the middle. The intended reader is someone who likes surreal metafiction. There is mild foul language, no sex, and no violence in this novel. The story is told from two voices Amanda and David. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- 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, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ties that bind a parent to a child.
Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story, and a cautionary tale. Samantha Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, taut, unsettling novel. Fresh and startling, this is like nothing you've ever read before. 

Review- This is a very interesting and surreal novel. This is told from first person but from two voices. Amanda is the storyteller and David is keeping her from forgetting the story as she lies dying. David asks her questions about what happened, who was there, and how she got to the hospital. The plot itself is about a mother, David's mother, who is worried about her child, who had been sick, and was now acting differently. There is so many plot points going on in this slim novel, from the way the story is told to how it plays with heavy themes of childhood death and environmental disaster. This novel is not for everyone but if you are willing to go to the experimental side of story telling, you will be rewarding in Dream Fever. 

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and borrowed this novel from my local library.