A review by chillcox15
Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos

4.0

It felt good to dig into a short story collection that demands a lot of the reader on a narratological level. Ríos does not follow the easiest way into her violent stories of civil unrest and neoliberal destruction, and as a result, entire stories can go by before you find your way into them. It's a book that demands rereading, without being endlessly pedantic. Some highlights: The Head, The Student, Dead Men Don't Rape, and Cars on Fire.