The dangers of smoking in bed: stories
โ Scribed by Mariana Enriquez; Megan McDowell
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group; Hogarth
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0593134079
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
****Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. ****
Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken--fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history--with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond...
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