The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories | Mariana Enriquez

208 pages | Random House | 2.1.22 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. Named one of the Best Books of the year by Oprah Magazine Electric Lit, Book Marks, and Lit Hub. A new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. “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 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, illn