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Intelligent and deeply felt, FEAST DAYS follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to So Paulo, where she encounters crime, protests, refugees, gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.Emma is a young woman who has just moved from New York to Brazil. She came for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in So Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, parses the Latin roots of words, and observes the city she now calls home. As massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality, Emma begins to volunteer at a local church to assist refugees, and grows more deeply connected to the people she meets in the course of her days.
About the Author
Ian MacKenzie is the author of the novel FEAST DAYS, forthcoming in March 2018 from Little, Brown, as well as a previous novel, CITY OF STRANGERS. His fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College, and has lived in New York City, Ethiopia, and Brazil. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.ianrmackenzie.com.
