Samanta Schweblin’s masterful Fever Dream was one of my favourite books in 2017 – a short, terrifying, and suspenseful tale set in bleak, rural Argentina featuring an unsettling, precocious child while exploring, among many things, the mother-child relationship and the concept of “the rescue distance.” It was brilliant, and since then, a couple of her…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I actually read 15 collections in total for Short Story September. I’m finally catching up on reviews, though I’m aware that I’ve missed out on Lisa’s link-up. (My other reviews: Heiny, Mackay, McEwan; the BBC National Short Story Award 2025 anthology; Donoghue, Grass, Isherwood, Mansfield as part of my Germany reading.) To keep it simple […]| Bookish Beck