"Genius." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." --Vanity Fair Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman ...

Only a few of us read Fever Dream, and we liked it, but we didn't think that much was going on. The book did a quite good job of creating a subtle tone of dread and we were drawn into the mystery of what the interrogator was looking for from the patient and what happened to make her sick. The book centers around the frustration of that mystery -- the entire point is what the narrator noticed and didn't notice, how much significance there might have been in these subtle moments anyone could have missed. In that sense, the book's message about sleepwalking into disaster is quite powerful. That said, that's the whole book. It essentially reduces to a single moment of missed perception and the framing around it. It's a good metaphor, but as a novel, it's pretty thin and there's not much else to talk about. It's an interesting book in its dedication to that message and it certainly accomplishes what it aims to do, but we couldn't help feeling that the novel could have done more. Go in expecting small stakes and this book will reward you.