Our Share of Night: A Novel

ONE OF TIME & THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK

A young father & son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife & mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he & his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?

Moving back & forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship & its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult & the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love & longing with queer subplots & themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”

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Mariana Enriquez is a writer based in Buenos Aires. In English, she has published the novel Our Share of Night & two story collections, Things We Lost in the Fire & The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, & the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.