Maria Salazar Steinman

Wake Up and Smell the Funeral Maria Salazar Steinman

"I write because I'm still fighting and I have this hope that in a year, or five, or ten, I will wake up and everything will have fallen into place. I write because when I was in Europe, I realized that everything always looks much better from the outside. I write because I confuse affection with love. I'm not an idiot. I know exactly what's wrong with me. I write because I'm obsessed, thank you very much." 'Wake Up and Smell the Funeral', explores the author's innermost obsessions surrounding themes of death, mortality, love, family, immigration and national identity through a compelling fresh voice that uses humor to break through the challenges and obscurity of identity.