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.more. It goes without saying that McDowell has produced another excellent work in English, and while I’m a little late to the party (the reactions on Twitter when I said I was reading this suggest that most of you got there first), hopefully I’ve piqued the interest of the few people who haven’t heard of this. Even more brutal is ‘Under the Black Water’, a story that blends an investigation into police brutality with the reality of pollution and fear of the unknown. Things We Lost in the Fire has the combination of fully-fleshed out characters, a touch of unreality, and the realities that many Argentinians face. After two novels, a novella, and a volume of travel writing, this short story collection is the first of the author’s work to appear in English, translated by Megan McDowell.
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