@twolinespress: Happy publication day to Juliana Leite’s EXEMPLARY HUMANS, translated by Zoë Perry! 🌸 “Natalia, a lonely Brazilian centenarian, anchors this searching novel. ‘The problem with living too much,’ she reflects, ‘is that you witness a world that is being erased right in front of you, person by person.’ Natalia, with nowhere to be and no one to see, recognizes that ‘the past is the only future,’ and so she dwells on her life—on her roles as a daughter and a schoolteacher, as a wife and a mother, and, most important, as a political dissident who resisted Brazil’s military dictatorship. At the heart of Natalia’s account is the question of how one continues to exist. The book ventures an answer, one found in its very form: by transmitting memories, both our own and others’.”—The New Yorker #BookTok #julianaleite #translatedfiction #translatedliterature #brazilianliterature

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