Things We Lost in the Fire

Twelve stories of contemporary Argentine literary horror, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell. The title story tracks women across Buenos Aires who begin burning themselves in protest of the violence inflicted on female bodies, until the burned body becomes a kind of currency. Other stories follow a haunted house in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, a missing child whose mother refuses to stop searching, and the disappeared of the Argentine dictatorship surfacing as ghosts. Mariana Enríquez writes the collection that earned her the English-language audience her later novel Our Share of Night turned into a cult readership.