The Blooming

In order to save her child, herself, and the world as we know it, a single mother must battle a sentient fungal entity that has come to possess the body and mind of her seven-year-old daughter in this chilling and unforgettable new novel from the acclaimed author of The River at Night and Girl in Ice.

In the rainy northeastern suburbs of Boston, where humidity lingers and fungal blooms emerge in damp corners, Dani, a single mother and scientist, reckons with a disturbing behavioral change in...