Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Radio and flying horses-reveal the perennial

and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality

the introduction and twelve chapters deconstruct premeditated labels of identity such as queer and southern

Some days--or weeks

and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different "rooms"

but as a queer person

Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Radio and flying horses-reveal the perennial"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time." Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize ONE