The Mycelium Dream

A remote fishing village on the Lithuanian coast. Two women separated by a quarter of a century, united by a desire to find sense and meaning. Two men struggling with each other and themselves. A dark present troubled by war and a dystopian utopic future. All connected by the inescapable, unending cloud of the Mycelium Dream.

A dazzling meditation on human existence, where fungi, emotion, and history intertwine. With bold originality, Grusaite reshapes questions around identity and asks: what if your subconscious was never truly your own, but a mycelium dream?

 - Brian Welsh, film director

In her third novel, Gabija Grušaitė develops a theory on the symbiosis between mammals and fungi to express the many tensions of her generation. Her speculative writing captures a restless capitalism that does not pretend to celebrate its own end but probes its mysterious origins instead. The Mycelium Dream is a story projected into the future yet oriented toward the past, where class struggle takes the form of a psychological conflict: between a daughter and her mother, biology and collective hallucination, alienation and self-assertion.

– Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, curatorial duo