Join us for another great book discussion with Lit on H Street Book Club! We will meet on the rooftop of the Apollo building, visit the concierge desk to gain rooftop access! For the health and safety of our members and community, this event is open to fully vaccinated individuals.

Following the “propulsive and mesmerizing” (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges.

Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken—fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history—with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can’t let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly.

Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina’s most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.

About Lit on H Street Book Club:

This monthly book club is founded and moderated by Lupita Aquino (@lupita.reads) and reads books by women of color. Book selections are curated by Lupita herself and each month features a different co-leader from the bookish community, each of whom brings a unique perspective to the discussion! Lit on H is truly a unique and enriching book club experience.