Somebody Is Walking on Your GraveSomebody Is Walking on Your Grave

"Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books. Mariana Enriquez--called a 'sorceress of horror'--has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She has visited them frequently, a goth flaneur taking notes on her aesthetic obsession as she walks among the headstones 'where dying seems much more interesting than being alive.' But when the body of a friend's mother who was disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship is found in a common grave, Enriquez begins to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries and where our bodies come to rest. Travel with Enriquez as she journeys across North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting Paris's catacombs, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans's above-ground mausoleums, Buenos Aires's opulent Recoleta and more. Enriquez investigates each cemetery's history and architecture, its saints and ghosts, its caretakers and visitors, and, of course, its dead. Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is memoir channeled through Enriquez's passion for cemeteries, revealing as much about her own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards and tombstones she tours. Fascinating, spooky, and unlike anything else, Enriquez's first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original and memorable as the stories and novels for which she's become so beloved and admired"-- Jacket flap.