Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez

The author deftly weaves painfully human characters. It's an unsettling undercurrent running behind the main events of each story.

But, like Jackson, most of these stories are characterized by their ability to feel normal at first, to portray real life and real people, but create a sense of the unnatural beneath it all. Enríquez has written a collection of Argentinian horror stories, full of atmosphere, suspense and ofttimes the grotesque. I can definitely feel the Shirley Jackson vibe. It’s the dark spaces and the secrets hidden just under the surface of the world we know. I recognise the world in it I suppose, in many ways, it's the one I live in. ^This is exactly how this whole book feels. “What do you know about what really goes on around here, mamita? You live here, but you’re from a different world.”ģ 1/2 stars. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires.

Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez