“A child’s abduction highlights the gulf separating the lives of the two women who care for her. In her English-language debut, Brazilian writer Madalosso delivers a story from the alternating perspectives of two women... The novel is short yet it ranges widely, from Amazon forests to love motels, from taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca to filming alligators. But it returns constantly to its central preoccupations, class and womanhood, the latter considered broadly to include sex after child-bearing, an anthropological scrutiny of female bonobo monkeys, depilation, and the anxious preoccupations of mothers everywhere. Madalosso’s style is modern, fractured, vivid in its devotion to inner fears and fantasies yet open-ended... An atmospheric, idiosyncratic glimpse of contemporary female lives.”
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