{"product_id":"9780593733516","title":"Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Share of Night \u003c\/i\u003eand “queen of horror” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Traveling with Enriquez in this enlightening, funny, and at times poignant book is like taking an adventure with your most interesting friend. I devoured every page.”—Greg Melville, author of \u003ci\u003eOver My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e’s Most Anticipated Books of the Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMariana Enriquez—called by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when the body of a friend’s mother who was disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship was found in a common grave, Enriquez began to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries and where our bodies come to rest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this rich book of essays—“excursions through death,” she calls them—Enriquez travels through North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting Paris’s catacombs, Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans’s aboveground 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, and more, \u003ci\u003eSomebody Is Walking on Your Grave\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Mariana Enriquez","offers":[{"title":"Random House Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2025-09-30","offer_id":46910182129919,"sku":"9780593733516","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3cc73d2d-80af-4866-95e5-3e1144fba718.jpg?v=1748887182","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593733516","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}