The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
Melo, Patrícia,
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman - First Restless Books paperback edition - 254 pages : map ; 21 cm
Originally published as Mulheres empilhadas by leya, Rio de Janerio, 2019.
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can hold in the face of overwhelming male violence, the resilience of community despite state-sponsored degradation, and the potential of the jungle to save us all. To escape her newly aggressive lover, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about the rampant attacks on the region's women, which have grown so commonplace that the cases quickly fill her large notebook. What she finds in the jungle is not only persistent racism, patriarchy, and deforestation, but a deep longing for answers to her enigmatic past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of Icamiabas, warrior women bent on vengeance--and gradually, she recovers the details of her own mother's early death.
In English, translated from the Portuguese.
9781632063465
2023939505
Women lawyers--Fiction.
Women--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Brazil--Fiction.
Novels.
PQ9698.3.M433S56
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman - First Restless Books paperback edition - 254 pages : map ; 21 cm
Originally published as Mulheres empilhadas by leya, Rio de Janerio, 2019.
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can hold in the face of overwhelming male violence, the resilience of community despite state-sponsored degradation, and the potential of the jungle to save us all. To escape her newly aggressive lover, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about the rampant attacks on the region's women, which have grown so commonplace that the cases quickly fill her large notebook. What she finds in the jungle is not only persistent racism, patriarchy, and deforestation, but a deep longing for answers to her enigmatic past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of Icamiabas, warrior women bent on vengeance--and gradually, she recovers the details of her own mother's early death.
In English, translated from the Portuguese.
9781632063465
2023939505
Women lawyers--Fiction.
Women--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Brazil--Fiction.
Novels.
PQ9698.3.M433S56