TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melo,Patrícia
AU  - Lewis,Sophie
TI  - The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
SN  - 9781632063465
U1  - PQ9698.3.M433S56  
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Restless Books
KW  - Women lawyers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Murder
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published as Mulheres empilhadas by leya, Rio de Janerio, 2019
N2  - 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
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