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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By (author) Ananda Lima
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At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true. Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging - and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. With humour, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as “singular and wise and fresh†(Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: “Rapture,†“Ghost Story,†“Tropicália,†“Antropógaga,†“Idle Hands,†“Rent,†“Porcelain,†“Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,†and “Hasselblad.†A great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Recommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more!
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Publisher | St Martin's Press
Published date | 21 Jul 2025
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 16 x 218 x 138mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-2502-9298-8
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BISAC | fiction / short stories (single author)
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