Somebody is walking on your grave

An enchanting, illuminating, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the worldpart travelogue, part memoir, part hauntology by the author of Our Share of Night and Buenos Airess sorceress The New York TimesEnriquez is a queen of horror.Los Angeles TimesOne of Latin Americas most exciting authors.Silvia Moreno-GarciaMariana Enriquez has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager, visiting them frequently, a goth flaneur taking notes on her aesthetic obsession as she walked among the headstones. But in , when the body of a friends mother who was dissapeared during Argentinas military dictatorship was found in a common grave, she began to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries and where our bodies come to rest. In this vivid, cinematic book, Enriquez travels North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting the catacombs of Paris, Pragues Old Jewish Cemetery, Elviss grave at Graceland, the above-ground mausoleums of New Orleans, her hometown of Buenos Airess Recoleta, and more. She investigates each cemeterys history, architecture, its dead famous and not, its saints and ghosts, its caretakers and visitors. Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, folklore, musicology, and literature, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is memoir channeled through Enriquezs obsession with cemeteries, revealing as much about her own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards and tombstones she walks among. Exhilarating, unsettling, and unlike anything else, Enriquezs first work of nonfiction is as original and enthralling as the stories and novels for which shes become so admired and beloved.