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* An IndieNext Pick
* A Bookshop Editors’ Pick
* A Goodreads Editors’ Pick
* One of Electric Literature’s “Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024”

From the National Book Award-winning translator, an exquisite, atmospheric, and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman’s first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over video calls across borders.

“By many measures, Bruna Dantas Lobato is quite the literary star.” —The New York Times

★ “In her first novel, Dantas Lobato shows that her talent as a writer is at least as tremendous as her talent as a translator.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)