Audrey invites Jerry to move into the room adjacent to their garage, which he does. During his stay at the Burke home Jerry struggles to remain drug-free and also becomes very fond of Harper and Dory. The relationship between Jerry and Audrey is fragile and complicated. Jerry helps Audrey cope in many ways, including lying with her in bed to help her sleep. But Audrey, upset and confused, takes out her grief at Brian's death on Jerry. She becomes angry when Jerry helps Dory overcome his fear of submerging his head in the pool; something Brian had tried to do for a few years. Quién es Mariana Enriquez, la mayor exponente de la literatura de terror en la Argentina". infobae (in European Spanish) . Retrieved 2023-06-29. S]lim but phenomenal…in [Enriquez’s] hands, the country’s inequality, beauty, and corruption tangle together to become a manifestation of our own darkest thoughts and fears. The spookiness of these 12 stories sets into the reader’s mind like a jet stone, sparkling through all that darkness.” — Vanity Fair

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Things We Lost in the Fire is a 2007 drama film directed by Susanne Bier, written by Allan Loeb, and starring Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro and David Duchovny. Self, John (2018-11-02). "Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez review – gruesome short stories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-01. Enriquez’s stories are historically aware and class-conscious, but her characters never avail themselves of sentimentalism or comfort. She’s after a truth more profound, and more disturbing, than whatever the strict dictates of realism allow….[P]ropulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque…and the darkest humor.” — New York Times Book Review

Mariana Enrquez is a novelist, journalist and short story writer from Argentina. She has published two novels, a collection of short stories as well as a collection of travel writings, Chicos que vuelven, and a novella. She is an editor at Pgina/12, a newspaper based in Buenos Aires. This is far from the only story that has the problems of life in the big city manifesting themselves as mental issues. ‘End of Term’ is an account of a student’s violent self-harming, with an inevitable twist. ‘No Flesh over Our Bones’ has a woman finding a skull in the street and deciding to treat it as her new best friend (and something to aspire to). However, there are other ways to react to a messed-up world, and in ‘The Intoxicated Years’ a trio of teenage girls rage through their teenage years defiantly rather than giving in to the horrors happening outside.

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Enriquez, Mariana (2016-12-12). "Spiderweb". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-08-01. There are recognisable elements in this collection of the True Crime genre, a dark corner of media which has as many fans internationally as it does critics. The examination of real crimes, more often than not focusing on grizzly murder, has always captured the public’s most grotesquely-inclined imaginations, and this has peaked in the last fifty years with the rise in awareness of criminal psychology. This morbid fascination has been argued to disconnect us from other human beings, and yet has resulted in the successful apprehension of long-obscured culprits. Many of Enriquez’s stories and characters live in this liminal space between a need for desensitisation to the horror of real life, and a comprehension of how the normalised should be understood as horrific, through the metaphor of her many ghouls and monsters. Joe Morgenstern (2007-10-19). "Del Toro Rescues 'Things We Lost,' A Tale of Grief". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2007-10-27. Hey everyone, now that the last discussion post for Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez has gone up, let's discuss the book as a whole.Things We Lost in the Fire is a searing, striking portrait of the social fabric of Argentina and the collective consciousness of a generation affected by a particular stew of history, religion and imagination. Mariana Enriquez has a truly unique voice and these original, provocative stories will leave a lasting imprint.” — The Rumpus Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken, these 12 tales present a gothic portrait of a country tilting uneasily away from the memory of horrific traumas, as new ones lurk around every corner.” — The Boston Globe, “The Best Fiction Books of 2017”

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Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken.”— The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year)Todos mis textos están pensados como una pregunta sobre el poder" ". infobae (in European Spanish) . Retrieved 2023-06-29.

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It’s all a little more complex than first appears, though, and Enriquez delights in concealing the true nature of events from the reader until the very end. We’re never quite sure whether the demons the woman pursues are actually there… Szalai, Jennifer (2017-03-03). "Argentine Fiction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-01.There’s murder of a different kind on offer in ‘An Invocation of the Big-Eared Runt’. Here we follow a tour guide as he shows people around scenes of crime in the capital, and while there are a fair few to choose from, there’s one particular criminal who captures his interest more than most. Understandable, perhaps, but is it normal to see the murderer on his bus, getting closer to the front day by day? As the story progresses, we sense that an innocent obsession is on the verge of becoming something far more sinister. Several pieces show us just how hazardous life in the capital can be. In ‘The Dirty Kid’, a middle-class woman slumming it in a dangerous part of town encounters a boy living on the streets. When she comes home one day to find the police investigating a murder, she can’t help but wonder if he’s the victim, particularly as there’s no sign of him – or his drug-addict mother. In Argentina, one woman lights herself on fire. Hundreds follow. Together they create a new kind of beauty. Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com . Retrieved 2019-08-01.