Fever Dream (Schweblin) - Book Reviews

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I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows…. [T]he genius of Fever Dream is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether.
Jia Tolentino - The New Yorker


Schweblin writes with such restraint that I never questioned a sentence or a statement. This is the power of the short novel: Stripped down to its essentials, her story all but glows. Which makes sense, after all. It's toxic.
Lily Meyer - NPR.org


A remarkable accomplishment in literary suspense.
New York Journal of Books


An absorbing and inventive tale.... Schweblin is a fine mythmaker, singular in her own fantastical artistry.
Houston Chronicle


Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream.
Vanity Fair


Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed.
Marie Claire


[A] pulsating debut, Schweblin tells the story of Amanda, a young mother dying in a hospital, who talks to a neighborhood boy, David.... Powered by an unreliable narrator—is Amanda imagining David by her side?—Schweblin guides her reader through a nightmare scenario with amazing skill.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) [A] breath of fresh air.... The hallucinatory flow of the dialog moves the story along quickly, and readers may have to turn back to find a missing puzzle piece. Those who are willing to stay with this book will find the experience like no other and well worth the effort. —Kate Gray, Boston P.L., MA
Library Journal


(Starred review.) A taut, exquisite page-turner vibrating with existential distress and cumulative dread.... In a literary thriller of the highest order, Schweblin teases out the underlying anxieties of being vulnerable and loving vulnerable creatures and of being an inhabitant of a planet with an increasingly uncertain future.
Kirkus Reviews