![]() The novel speaks often of this concept of an invisible tether that binds the mother to her child to always keep a safe distance in case anything happens. The most terrifying thing in Samantha Schweblin’s debut novel is the complete breakdown of a mother’s ability to protect her child as she slowly begins to lose control of her body. Fever Dream is a surreal and deeply disturbing tale of sickness and the trials of motherhood. This leads the woman, Amanda, to recount the last few days at a vacation home, her run-in with another mother with a dark story, and the reflections on her own role as a mother of the young Nina.Īll the while, the reader is slipping in and out of the story between conversations with the young boy. Spoiler Warning* For The Fever Dream Book Review ![]() ![]() Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering told through an experimental narrative, a young mother on the verge of death is visited by the voice of a young boy asking to scan her memories, to find when the ‘worms’ first appeared. ![]()
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