The Morningside by Téa Obreht, 304 pages.
Fleeing from their disintegrating (at times literally) homeland, Silvia and her mother are placed by the Repopulation Program into The Morningside, a crumbling building that was once a luxury tower on an island being swallowed by the sea in a world profoundly impacted by climate change. Sil's Aunt Ena also lives in the tower as its super, and she teaches Sil all of the folklore of their homeland that her own mother won't. Silvia becomes convinced that the mysterious woman with her three huge dogs living on the top floor is really a malevolent entity, and her search to prove it will have dire consequences for her family.
This was such a weird, interesting book. It builds very slowly, and never really tells the reader what's real and what isn't. I found it very compelling, although hard to describe.
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