A review by saint_eleanor
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

I love Mariana Enriquez's writing and how uncomfortable it makes me, but I think I really liked Things We Lost in the Fire better than this collection. I felt like a lot of the stories were the same and actually pretty similar to TWLITF so maybe I'd feel differently If I had read this one first? There is something Mariana touches on in her writing that is so hard to describe when you feel it yourself, like when you feel like everyone is pretending to be fine around you and you're like everything is so f*cked up here???? y'all arent upset????

Big themes for this one: pooping on the ground, ghost children, hating the city you live in. 
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