Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez Groundswell Speaker 2024 If he gets a result

If he gets a result

my necktie flapping like a windsock

What if those paths led to the next town

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

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez Groundswell Speaker 2024 If he gets a resultThe 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