A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, The New York Times) “Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors. . . . A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.”—Los Angeles Times “As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: NPR, Time, Vulture, Chicago Review of Books, Paste, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, Parade, Reactor, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Polygon, Our Culture On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the