Some of my favorite chapters were about cemeteries in New Orleans, Mexico and Italy, although many are about small cemeteries in Argentina that I now want to visit. You’ll find creepy stories and quirky details but also interesting and obscure historical facts about some cemeteries. Every chapter is about a different cemetery the author has visited, her experience and her insight and reflections on what the “culture of death” and our relationship with graveyards tells about us as a society. The book is the perfect mix between travel anecdotes and essays. When I read Alguien camina sobre tu tumba (not yet translated to English, but the title means Someone walks over your grave), I was fascinated to have a closer look at the writer’s obsession with death, mortuary rituals, witchcraft, ghosts and local legends, themes that are always present in her short stories. She is one of the few contemporary writers that creep me out (in a good way, I guess) and when I discovered she had written a book about cemeteries I quickly added it to my list. I since marvel at the Argentinian writer’s talent to conjure up such terrifying stories from the daily Latin American everyday violence. A couple of years ago I became acquainted with Mariana Enriquez’s storytelling.
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