Mónica Ramón Ríos

"When you live in an adopted country, when you're an exile in your own body, names are simply lists that dull the reality of death." Cars on Fire, Mónica Ramón Ríos's electric, uncompromising English-language debut, unfolds through a series of female characters-the writer, the patient, the immigrant, the professor, the student-whose identities are messy and ever-shifting. A speechwriter is employed writing for would-be dictators, but plays in a...