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“Tropicália by Harold Rogers ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind.He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug-dealing aunt and uncle, his mother makes her unwanted return, years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father.Misfortune, however, is a Cunha family affair, and no generation is spared. Not Daniel’s grandfather João—poor João—born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not João’s wife, Marta, branded as a bruxa, reviled by her mother, and dragged from her Ilha paradise by her scheming daughter, Maria. And certainly not Maria, so envious of her younger sister’s beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States, abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia, both tainted now by their half-Americanness and their mother’s greedy absence.There’s poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed, condemned to the pain of deprivation, betrayal, violence, and, worst of all, love. But now Maria has returned to grieve her father and finally make peace with Daniel and Lucia, or so she says. As New Year’s Eve nears, the Cunha family hurtles toward an irrevocable breaking point: a fire, a knife, and a death on the sands of Copacabana Beach.Amid the cacophony of Rio’s tumult—rampant poverty, political unrest, the ever-present threat of violence—a fierce chorus of voices rises above the din to ask whether we can ever truly repair the damage we do to those we love.

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A wonderful, brutally honest drama, brilliantly written in multiple voices comprising every member of a family living in Rio. The author grounds the experiences of his characters in a short, exceptionally violent, period of time between Christmas and New Years in Rio, yet allows them to each reminisce at their own pace to give the reader an understanding about how this family came to this unhappy moment. The voice of each member of the family feels authentic (and the dialogue is extraordinary) and their instincts and decisionmaking, however questionable, are described with total emotional accuracy, allowing the understanding of the larger family tragedy to be told in emotional terms by each character. In this story, individual choice means much less than the larger circumstances that created the tragedy, but they must each individually try to find a way to escape intergenerational trauma. The toughest lesson of the book is that almost no one in the family is capable of providing anything positive to any other member of the family. The only way to heal is to walk away. One of my favorite debuts of the year.