This book received multiple starred reviews from major literary/library journals. Library Journal describes the stories as “intriguing and thought-provoking,” emphasising how the collection explores the writing process and the immigrant experience.
Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.
Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil. 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.
Recommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more!
