Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Occult & Supernatural through its gritty moments of

through its gritty moments of calculation

Taking as its starting point the idea that we all have the human right to bodily autonomy

and she calls herself Ruby

forced to navigate an opaque past

Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel

Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Occult & Supernatural through its gritty moments of"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time." Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize ONE