"Things We Lost in the Fire"
"Things We Lost in the Fire"
By
Ona Russell
Tales of life on the margins in Argentine author Mariana Enríquez's new short story collection.
What terrifies more, the past or the present? The imaginary or the real? The supernatural or the self? Don’t answer. Not yet. Not until you’ve read Mariana Enríquez’s masterful, disturbing short story collection, Things We Lost in the Fire (Hogarth Press). Wait until you’ve traveled, eyes open, through her perilous terrain, where either/or categories are blurred and the real question involves the relationship of one terror to another.
Set in contemporary Argentina, each story, with a single, notable exception, is...
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