December, 2009. A reduction in force leaves Abigail's boyfriend, Garrett, out of work and both of them without housing. Armed with no other choice, they are forced to move from Chicago to south-central Illinois, where a local medical practitioner left the building to Abigail in a trust. Used to moving around after a childhood spent in the foster system, Abigail considers this a pit stop, a place she refuses to see as a new home.As Garrett convinces her to stay so they can save some...

Lispector’s most shocking novel.The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door —crushing the cockroach —and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature…Lispector wrote that...

A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín.Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretch...

In this series of revised works from various authors, Clarice Darling brings us her re-vamped tale of a husband who falls foul of his wife’s newly discovered sexuality.A sexuality kicked into gear by the attentions of her younger and also female black boss.A black and female boss who not only wants her employee and lover to herself but thinks it would be good for both of them if that lover’s husband could be seduced and cajoled into domestic servitude to both of them as the...

One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered storiesHere, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers,...

'"What can I do?" It is a question millions are asking at this unprecedented time in history. What can I do to fight oppression and injustice? How do we get a better world, one that doesn't prioritize money or power, but puts the prosperity of all life first? Oppression is everywhere, but (r)evolution is rearing it's head, found in the minds of those who march, those who resist and rise and within us all. With this book, I invite you to find the way to a new world together.' – From: Claric...

“La Femme Diabolique” brings you four books on the subject of the wife who enjoys the idea of having a husband who obeys her in all ways…No matter how long they have been married!Inside you’ll find:Amelia Bellfield’s “A Ruined Husband”, in which an ill-advised but happily married man’s poor judgment sees him compelled into performing certain acts by his female boss that will shame him to his core… And shame him even further when his wife is brought into the mix!...

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writerLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “...

Lispector at her most philosophically radical.A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.

She wants him as her neutered servant. Outrage, as ever, boiled close to the surface of his thoughts and even now, after so many humiliations, he could only marvel that his manhood had been so far reduced he felt unable to give voice to the many indignities and injustices being heaped upon his head on a daily basis. All of which, he now knew with hindsight, the woman sitting above him at her imperious ease had either suggested or introduced. Robert and Gilly have been married for fifteen y...

He is unemployed and bankrupt, while his previously wife is thriving in a new position and has embarked upon an affair with the company’s young boss. Her boss is black, lesbian, and VERY dominant, and she just happens to believe that her new lover’s handsome but demoralised husband will make him the most perfect and obedient of household chattels. Once he has been conditioned, of course. “Knocking on her door gently and waiting for her to give me permission to enter this to a room in a hou...

2-Books of marital misadventure of the female-led kind open with open with Clarice Darling's classic of cuckolding and wifely dominance, “Husband to Cuckold… and Worse!”, as a seemingly happy marriage of fifteen years deteriorates into something less pleasant and far more humiliating… For the husband, anyway… A husband whose loving wife intends to become the sole ruler of their home and for him to toe the line… In ALL ways!Completing the compilation, we have Rafael Menton’s “An Ema...