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Covert Joy

By (author) Clarice Lispector, Translated by Katrina Dodson, Introduction by Rachel Kushner, Foreword by Paulo Gurgel Valente

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Covert Joy is an electric volume starring such landmark Clarice Lispector stories as â€œThe Smallest Woman in the World,â€ â€œLove,â€ â€œFamily Ties,â€ and â€œThe Egg and the Chicken.â€Â As expressed in the title story, Covert Joy offers all the bliss that only a great book can bring:Â Joy would always be covert for me. . . Sometimes Iâ€™d sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy. I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover. Â These stories embody all the many wonders of Clarice Lispectorâ€™s short fiction and were selected from Complete Stories, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Vogue, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle.Â â€œClarice Lispectorâ€™s stories are strangely restorative,â€ as Rachel Kushner remarks in her foreword. â€œWhile reading itself is not passive, you can relax, while she is hard at work, asking questions that are inside you, too, so that you yourself donâ€™t have to frame them. Her aspiration is nothing less than to uncover the bizarre mystery of consciousness, to contemplate being while being, to apprehend life while living it. Someone has to do this work. Lispector seems to have recognized that she had a gift for the job and plunged in.â€