Entre irmãs by Frances de Pontes Peebles

Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. This event is free and open to the public! Refreshments will be served.Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.

Department of Education Title VI grant), and the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “A Conversation with Frances de Pontes Peebles” was made possible by the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, the Center for Global Studies (with the support of a U.S. She is serving as a Visiting Associate Professor of Fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop this spring. Both dream of becoming a star - but Graça is the one who rises to fame, while Dores is left in the shadows.įrances lives in Chicago with her family. The Air You Breathe is about two friends, orphaned Dores and wealthy Graça, who as children bond over their love of music and become inseparable.

The novel also starts out in 1930s Pernambuco, but most of the story takes place in Rio de Janeiro and in Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was also a Book of the Month pick and an Amazon Best Book of August 2018. The Air You Breathe was named one of the best books of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews. A miniseries version of the film aired on Brazil’s Globo network. It has been translated into nine languages and was adapted for film under the title Entre Irmãs. The Seamstress won the Elle Grand Prix for fiction, the Friends of American Writers Award, and the James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship. Their lives take them on different, yet interconnected paths: Luzia is abducted by a band of outlaw cangaceiros and must fight to survive, while Emília marries into a wealthy family and must learn to navigate Recife’s high society. The novel is set in Northeast Brazil during the early 1930s, and it follows two sisters from the state of Pernambuco. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the author of the novels The Seamstress (2008) and The Air You Breathe (2018).įrances received a Fulbright Grant and a Sacatar Foundation Fellowship to spend time in Brazil conducting research for her first novel, The Seamstress. Views 185 Originating Calendar International and Area Studies Libraryįrances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil, and grew up in Miami, Florida.

Entre irmãs by Frances de Pontes Peebles