Written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints Day (published in 2015) is a collection of very interesting stories. One story follows the story of a Columbian reporter who witnesses an exceptionally gruesome murder. Another tells the story of a wife who waits for her husband to come home from getting wood. Little does she know, her husband has been cheating on her with a different woman. Regardless the story, though, Vásquez' book is filled to the brim with mystery, intrigue, prescient themes, and a tremendous amount of violence.
When released Lovers on All Saints Day received middling reviews. A reviewer from Kirkus Reviews didn't particularly like the book, saying that the stories in the book are "Lackluster accounts of men feeling sorry for themselves. Sometimes while hunting. Colin Dwyer of NPR, however, liked the book much more than other reviewers. Still, he wasn't completely sold on it, saying that "All Saints' Day is a record of a young writer finding his footing — at times leaping and slogging at others, but always moving forward in darkness."
