Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez Groundswell Speaker 2024 It takes us from scenes

It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence - where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion - to the excruciations of early public appearances

my necktie flapping like a windsock

and her readers

If he gets a result

something that might bloom"' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez Groundswell Speaker 2024 It takes us from scenesThe debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night. 'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror You [will] return home looking pale and haunted' Observer Sleep deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp toothed children and stolen skulls; persecuted young women drawn to self immolation. Organized crime sits side by side with the occult in Buenos Aires a place where reality and the