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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e includes: \"Rapture,\" \"Ghost Story,\" \"Tropicália,\" \"Antropógaga,\" \"Idle Hands,\" \"Rent,\" \"Porcelain,\" \"Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,\" and \"Hasselblad.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's \u003cem\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/em\u003e and V. E. 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