Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin
"A dying woman. A strange boy at her bedside. And one question: where are the worms?"
In a rural clinic, Amanda is dying while a boy named David — not her son — interrogates her about the exact moment everything went wrong. What unspools is a nightmare of maternal love, poisoned fields and 'rescue distance': the invisible thread every parent measures. Read it in one sitting; you won't have a choice.
Worth knowing
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and adapted into a Netflix film.
