num_pages: 208
description:  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 next 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 unsettling 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 by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly.Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain in fear and in limbo this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated and most chilling.
language: English
title: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
publisher: Hogarth Press