Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer

In a brooding, surreal port city long shadowed by an eerie invasion of sentient, mushroom-like inhabitants known as the gray caps, multiple interlocking narratives follow residents—artists, scholars, policemen, and underground militants—as they navigate political unrest, personal obsessions, and strange ecological transformations; blending noir, dark fantasy, and speculative allegory, the book examines power, memory, identity, and the uneasy boundaries between human and other.

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