Written by people who wish to remain anonymous Amanda Amanda is the main character of the novella. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Powered by an unreliable narrator-is Amanda imagining David by her side?-Schweblin guides her reader through a nightmare scenario with amazing skill. by Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream Character List These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. After a frightening encounter with David, Amanda throws Carla and the boy out of her home, yet before long, the trio of women are reunited, and from her future hospital bed, a semilucid Amanda tries to remember how this meeting resulted in her death spiral. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. As Amanda and her daughter, Nina, try to settle in at their vacation home away from the city, they become entangled with Carla, David’s mother, who appears at random intervals and spins wild tales of her son. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination. David has Amanda recount the events leading up to her sudden illness-in search of, as he says, “the worms” that caused her ailment-and the result is a swirling narrative packed with dream logic and bizarre coincidences, where souls shift from sick bodies to healthy hosts and poisonous toxins seep under the skin upon contact with the grass. In her pulsating debut, Schweblin tells the story of Amanda, a young mother dying in a hospital, who talks to a neighborhood boy, David, as he sits by her bedside.
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