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 ABOUT AUTHOR

Gabija Grušaitė is a bestselling Lithuanian novelist and interdisciplinary artist. Author of three novels, a children’s book, and multimedia installations, she blends literature and visual art to explore identity, consciousness, and inner transformation. She lives between London, Italy, and Lithuania