A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez's third English-language story collection moves through a haunted Buenos Aires apartment building, a true-crime podcast that summons the dead, an Instagram cult of women setting themselves on fire, and bodies that transform without warning in ways the social order around them refuses to acknowledge. The 12 stories thread Argentine dictatorship history and contemporary femicide through surreal premises that Kafka himself would have recognized. McDowell's translation arrived in October 2024 and cemented Enriquez as the leading voice in contemporary Latin American horror.