Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

An enchanting,highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the worldΓÇöpart traveloguepart memoirpart ΓÇ£excursions through deathΓÇ¥ by the author of Our Share of Night and ΓÇ£queen of horrorΓÇ¥ (Los Angeles Times) ΓÇ£Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logueSomebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberantwitty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long traipse among tilting tombstonesdank cryptsand chilling history.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöJoe Hill ΓÇ£Enriquez knows cemeteries are the repositories of lifeΓÇÖs pain and beauty. I felt more alive as I read.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöCaitlin DoughtyNew York Times bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory ΓÇ£An eccentric and enlightening peek into how memorialization happens across the world.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöPublishers Weeklystarred review ΓÇ£Fascinating . . . Enriquez hides a celebration of life in a book about death.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöBookliststarred review One of Publishers WeeklyΓÇÖs Top 10 New Releases of the Fall ΓÇó A Most Anticipated Book of the Fall: Chicago TribuneLos Angeles TimesLiterary HubMs. MagazineBustleBook RiotPublishers Lunch Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books. Mariana EnriquezΓÇöcalled by The New York Times a ΓÇ£sorceress of horrorΓÇ¥ΓÇöhas been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She has visited them frequentlya goth flaneur taking notes on her aesthetic obsession as she walks among the headstonesΓÇ£where dying seems much more interesting than being alive.ΓÇ¥ But when the body of a friendΓÇÖs mother who was disappeared during ArgentinaΓÇÖs military dictatorship was found in a common graveEnriquez began to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries and where our bodies come to rest. In this rich book of essaysΓÇöΓÇ£excursions through deathΓÇ¥ she calls themΓÇöEnriquez travels through North and South AmericaEurope and Australiavisiting ParisΓÇÖs catacombsPragueΓÇÖs Old Jewish CemeteryNew OrleansΓÇÖs aboveground mausoleumsBuenos AiresΓÇÖs opulent Recoletaand more. Enriquez investigates each cemeteryΓÇÖs history and architectureits saints and ghostsits caretakers and visitorsandof courseits dead. Weaving personal stories with reportageinterviewsmythshauntologyand moreSomebody Is Walking on Your Grave is memoir channeled through EnriquezΓÇÖs passion for cemeteriesrevealing as much about her own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards and tombstones she tours. Fascinatingspookyand unlike anything elseEnriquezΓÇÖs first work of nonfictiontranslated by the award-winning Megan McDowellis as original and memorable as the stories and novels for which sheΓÇÖs become so beloved and admired.