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Right and wrong is learned during childhood, but The Runt in question, a real adult male murderer with a mental health disorder and the intellectual capacity of a child, has no notion of conscience. As an examination of human consciousness, it destabilises our ability to know right from wrong by questioning what defines them. She celebrates our every-day relation to the macabre, the unthinkable, the revolting. In ‘Invocation of the Big-Eared Runt’, for instance, Enríquez does not demonstrate reverence for violence, criminality and distress. As a collection of short fiction, it initiates the reader into a kind of socio-political Día de los muertos death cult from the off: understand, accept, give in.īut it is not hero-worship for the serial-killer-obsessed, nor for the conjuror of the demonic. Mariana Enríquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire is a mutant blend of lit fic and fantasy - inexplicably morbid and unnerving, otherworldly and compelling.
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