Family Ties

Clarice Lispector · 1960 CE · Short Story · Latin American · Contemporary

Ana is riding home with the shopping when the tram stops and she sees a blind man chewing gum, and the careful afternoon she has built for herself comes apart in her hands. Thirteen pieces put middle-class Brazilian women through that kind of rupture: a birthday party for an old woman who despises her children, a wife hunting her own rage at the zoo. The book that made Lispector's name at home.

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