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Amora
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic transcending the boundaries of literary romance. Amora dares explore the way women love each other--the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed. Violence, sickness, chaos, tenderness, beauty, and freedom adorn these pages in a mosaic of unforgettable moments, including a lesbian granddaughter discovering unexpected commonalities with her grandmother, a teenager's tryst with her friend after disenchanting sex with a boy, and an old couple's dreamy Sunday-morning ritual. Sweeping nearly every major Brazilian literary prize in 2016--including the Prmio Jabuti and Prmio Aorianos de Literatura--Amora has propelled Natalia Borges Polesso to the forefront of the international literary world.
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WorldsOkayestStepMom
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Panpan

I only really enjoyed 2 of the short stories. I'm happy to finally get this off my Kindle though! I got it for free through Amazon Crossings several years ago.

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Beatlefan129
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Mehso-so

I think I downloaded this book for free on Amazon World Book Day a few years ago. Translated from Portuguese, all of these short stories take place in Brazil and feature love between women. There are no quotation marks, and at times the words read more like poetic musings than actual stories. While I appreciated the ideas here, it was hard for me to really connect with anything as is often the case with short stories. ⭐️⭐️/5

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Kitta
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Just discovered this challenge so I‘m signing on a bit late! I‘ve already read quick a few LGBTQ books and authors in 2022. I think I‘m going to find some of these challenges hard though, I don‘t like to “read” audiobooks and don‘t get books from my library (does borrowing from a friend count?) @Kenyazero #LGBTQBookBingo #LGBTQ2022

Nutmegnc Welcome to #lgbtqbookbingo!! 👏👏👏🌈 2y
Kitta @Nutmegnc thanks!! 2y
Kenyazero Welcome aboard! I hope you‘re not too stumped for long by the library and audio prompts. You could always listen to a picture book because they‘re under 10 minutes 😉 2y
Kenyazero Oh! I also noticed you‘re on StoryGraph— this challenge is also on StoryGraph if you wanted to track your progress there. 2y
Kitta @Kenyazero I joined on StoryGraph too! 2y
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peanutnine
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Mehso-so

I'm usually not one for short story collections. I feel like there is so much left unsaid. Some of the longer stories in this I enjoyed though. They all focus on some aspect of relationships between women. It was interesting to see some aspects of Brazilian culture that I didn't know a lot about before.

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elizabethlk
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Mehso-so

#LiteReads review for Marilia Wakes Up by Natalia Borges Polesso, translated from Portuguese to English by the author, is available! I really enjoyed getting to see an elderly sapphic relationship and the little moments in their lives, but I also personally found some moments to be on the ableist side, which lessened the story for me. Let me know in the comments what you thought of the story!

https://wp.me/p9KSXu-Ci

#womenintranslationmonth

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elizabethlk
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Our new Lite Reads selection is Marilia Wakes Up by Natalia Borges Polesso, translated from Portuguese to English by the author. You can find links to read this literary short story out of Brazil through our full intro post, link below. Be sure to let me know what you think of this short story once you've had the chance to read it!

https://wp.me/p9KSXu-Cj

#litereads #womenintranslationmonth

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ReadingEnvy
Amora: Stories | Natalia Borges Polesso
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Pickpick

Here is a recommendation for the upcoming Women in Translation month! It can be harder to find lgbtq+ representation in translated works, and this is a solid collection of short stories (sometimes very short, like 1-2 pages) translated from the Portuguese. All are slice of life and generally about relationships between two women.

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