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Earth Reads: Fever Dream

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

Hosted by Eliza from Lost City Books, Earth Reads will explore how to live through late-capitalist global climate catastrophe from a radical lens, and how to dream new ways of being on this planet. Next up is Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream!

About Fever Dream:

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.

Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

This book club will be hosted via ZOOM, a video conferencing app for computers and phones. Open to all -- please just rsvp with a ticket for access to the ZOOM meeting. You can also purchase a copy of the book here which will give you:

  • a copy of Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream

  • access to the guided ZOOM discussion with our host, Eliza , from Lost City Books

*** We ask that participants be aware that you will need to download the ZOOM app to join the meeting. Within ZOOM, your camera's audio will pull your video to center-screen so it is advisable to set up in a quiet area. Additionally we ask that participants be courteous and take turns speaking/remain aware of your floor time so that everyone can get the most out of the book club experience.

Earlier Event: October 25
Poetry Open Mic Night at Lost City Books!
Later Event: October 27
LCSF reads American Midnight