Accreting through cumulative and sometimes contradictory accounts of a crumbling São Paulo dynasty, this philosophical novel examines what people present and what they conceal, even from themselves....Bracher and translator Morris render a sophisticated, multifaceted portrait of a family that endures nevertheless through its decline and the prolonged fallout from the choices they made–or that were left them–through the lives they lived. An elegant and nuanced meditation on family, class, perception, illness, and death.– "Kirkus (starred review)"
