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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

Contributor(s): Enriquez, Mariana (Author), McDowell, Megan (Translator)

ISBN: 9780593733516

Publisher: Hogarth Press

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Pub Date: September 30, 2025

Dewey: 808.883

LCCN: 2025024483

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.30" H x 9.20" L x 6.20" W ( 1.35 lbs) 336 pages

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Description: "Originally published in Spain as Alguien camina sobre tu tumba by Anagrama in Barcelona, Spain in 2021."--Title page verso.

Review Quotes: "It's no surprise that cemeteries hold a special personal fascination for the writer. The surprise, rather, may be that this collection of essays about her visits to graveyards all over the world is less about death than life, and the varieties--and the emotional imperative--of somehow marking its passing."--NPR

"Like A Field Guide to Getting Lost for sickos and goths."--Orange Country Register

"Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave finds the great Argentine horror writer (Our Share of Night) mixing memoir and legend for a global survey of cemeteries."--Chicago Tribune

"In her reflective, pitch-perfect collection of linked essays, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave, the great Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez guides us through 21 of the world's distinctive cemeteries. . . . each chapter's a banger, rendered in a luminous translation by Megan McDowell. . . . Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is an immersive testament to her genius."--Los Angeles Times

"This addicting travelogue of extremely readable prose, translated by Megan McDowell, tangles past and present like ivy climbing a stone headstone, offering fascinating cultural and historical tidbits . . . alongside life philosophies from a woman healthily obsessed with death."--Bustle

"Mariana Enriquez documents her years of visiting graveyards across the world with infectious enthusiasm, in her first work of non-fiction translated into English."--Financial Times

"A deliciously eerie journey that makes you want to pack a black umbrella and see the world's graveyards for yourself."--Conde Nast Traveler

"A fun travelogue that's also part memoir, and taphophiles will love it."--The Washington Blade

"In the brilliantly written Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, it's easy to share Enriquez's sense of wonder and delight as she visits some of the world's most unforgettable cemeteries. Traveling with Enriquez in this enlightening, funny, and at times poignant book is like taking an adventure with your most interesting friend. I devoured every page."--Greg Melville, author of Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

"A triumph of curiosity! Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is one of those marvels that shows how dark, joyful, and mesmerizing the world is when the brave go looking. I'm a longtime fan of Mariana Enriquez, and this book delivers everything (and more) that I love about her writing."--Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio

"Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long traipse among tilting tombstones, dank crypts, and chilling history."--Joe Hill

"Enriquez knows cemeteries are the repositories of life's pain and beauty. I felt more alive as I read."--Caitlin Doughty, New York Times bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

"I cannot think of a better guide through not exactly the realm of the beyond--but rather, the all-too-real spaces where we, the living, must confront the inevitability of 'that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.'"--Literary Hub

"Quietly, hypnotically amusing."--Kirkus Reviews

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