![]() ![]() ![]() Through these characters, Enriquez develops the interpersonal effects of Argentina’s larger socioeconomic landscape. In each story, the ravages of poverty, misogyny, and the ghost of a government under dictatorship invade the private lives of teenage girls and young women. 2017).Įnriquez swathes her dozen stories in the viciously fantastical and grotesque, ensuring that her readers never settle: one encounters human excrement and blunt sexuality more than once. Originally published in 2017, this new translation by Megan McDowell follows Enriquez’s lauded collection The Things We Lost in the Fire (2016, Eng. ![]() This introductory story portends the brutally macabre tone of the ensemble. In “Angelita Unearthed,” the eponymous infant wears its feet down to the “little white bones” as it follows the narrator into an irresolute ending. 208 pages.Ī DEAD BABY and her haunted great-niece open The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez’s collection of disquieting short stories. ![]()
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