Translated by Megan McDowell
Mariana Enriquez’s A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina’s brutal past.
Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.
Review: A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez review – gothic horror with a twist, The Guardian
Read: The Intoxicated Years, Granta
Prompt: Describe a shady place in your garden. Start with plants, then move to the earth. Zoom in one a single detail. See where it leads.