Fever Dream

This is a book you can read in a few hours, and if you like creepiness, you'll like it a lot. The story is told in a dialogue between Amanda, a woman who is dying in a hospital, and David, a neighbor's young son. David is trying to get Amanda to understand something important about how she got to where she is and what is happening to her, so he is coaching her through recounting her memories of the past few days. Those memories are full of mounting dread that seems at first to be out of proportion to the circumstances, but turns out to be entirely justified.

The writing is spare. There isn't a lot of description, but I had a vivid picture from the few words Amanda gave to her surroundings, and I came to some conclusions about what was happening from her observations. This book does a lot with little, and doesn't give anything away. If you read it (and I recommend it), let's talk about it.