![]() ![]() ![]() 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 correctly to a moral dilemma. 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. ![]() Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews.FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize.SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian ![]()
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