Morbid & Curious Book Club -Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

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Ready to dive deep into spooky stories and eerie tales? Join us in person for spooky season meet-up at Ochos for Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetary Journeys by Mariana Enriquez. Whether you're a horror buff or just curious, this book club is the perfect spot to share chills, thrills, and some good laughs. Bring your sense of adventure and get ready for a night full of fascinating discussions and morbid fun!

Ticket includes a copy of Somebody is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemebary Journeys and $10 towards your first beverage at .

• Come to meet new people and have a great conversation!
• Discussion led by Rediscovered Books Bookseller, Hanna,
• Seating is limited to 12 participants, registration is required for each person.
• Haven’t finished the book? Come anyway, but we cannot promise no spoilers. 
• Limited number of partner tickets available (2 people, 2 vouchers, and 1 book).
• Must be 21 or older to attend.

If you have already purchased the book from Rediscovered Books, please email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] and we will issue you a gift card equal to the cost of the book after you have registered.

About the Book:

Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books.

Mariana Enriquez--called by The New York Times a "sorceress of horror"--has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She has visited them frequently, a goth flaneur taking notes on her aesthetic obsession as she walks among the headstones, "where dying seems much more interesting than being alive."

But when the body of a friend's mother who was disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship was found in a common grave, Enriquez began to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries and where our bodies come to rest.

In this rich book of essays--"excursions through death," she calls them--Enriquez travels through North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting Paris's catacombs, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans's aboveground mausoleums, Buenos Aires's opulent Recoleta, and more. Enriquez investigates each cemetery's history and architecture, its saints and ghosts, its caretakers and visitors, and, of course, its dead.

Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is memoir channeled through Enriquez's passion for cemeteries, revealing as much about her own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards and tombstones she tours. Fascinating, spooky, and unlike anything else, Enriquez's first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original and memorable as the stories and novels for which she's become so beloved and admired.

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