João Biehl

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centres on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralysed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to...