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"This short but profoundly moving novel by the young Brazilian writer is one of the finest explorations of love you will find anywhere this year."―John Freeman, The Boston Globe
After a falling out, Cora and Julia reunite for a long-planned road trip through Brazil. As they drive from town to town, the complications of their friendship resurface. By the end of the trip, they must decide what the future holds, in a queer, coming-of-age debut novel that has been celebrated in Brazil.

We All Loved Cowboys

Literature & Fiction

Bensimon, Carol

Literary

Transit Books

For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear together in English translation. This far-reaching, bilingual assortment of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography--erotic and personal, revolutionary, hopeful, joyous, and bitter--continues the legacy of defiant queer expression in Brazil and demands its prolific, unapologetic future. In fresh and poetic prose, Raimundo Neto brings us lesser-known narratives of queer life in rural Brazil, including the story of a boy determined to become the "harvest bride" at a the local annual harvest dance. Poet Angélica Freitas details a disturbingly familiar world in which women are divided into rigid binaries--clean or dirty, good or bad--with stark language that builds into utter absurdity. And Caio Fernando Abreu sits in a hospital dying of AIDS, meeting with angels and writing letters in which he repeats "all I can do is write" like a mantra. Spanning four decades, and featuring a total of thirteen writers,Cuíer reminds us again, as Natalia Affonso says in her translation of Tatiana Nascimento's poem: ...what we make lying down is also revolution.

Cuíer (Calico, 4)

Abreu, Caio Fernando

Freitas, Angélica

Noll, João Gilberto

BUENO, WILSON

CEsar, Ana Cristina

da Silva, Cidinha

Diacov, Carla

Domeneck, Ricardo

Judar, Cristina

Neto, Raimundo

Nascimento, Tatiana

Junqueira, Marcio

United States

Two Lines Press

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