Ananda Lima’s CRAFT: Stories I Wrote For The Devil—a strange, intimate, haunted, hungry, intoxicating, and surreal fiction debut–has received three starred reviews!
“Brazil-born Lima explores questions of identity, politics, and creativity through a surrealist lens in these short stories. Who gets to tell certain stories and why? The book’s title evokes both guile and labor, cunning and skill. The dream for Lima’s characters, plagued by global pandemics and wealth disparities, is not health or fame, but writing. Art may not save us from the Devil or hell on earth, but it can come close. Stories that will delight readers crushed under the weight of the contemporary world.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“It is the writer and her interactions with the devil (rendered with both sympathy and healthy fear) throughout her life that add a surreal hue, uniting the entire volume into one of the most original and unforgettable reads of the year. A captivating, alluring, and, at times, illicit book that is conscious of the craft of the storytelling process without sacrificing an extraordinary reading experience.”—Library Journal, starred review
“Poet Lima (MOTHER/LAND) makes a terrific fiction debut with this stylistically adventurous collection of interconnected stories featuring an unnamed Brazilian American writer who sleeps with the devil himself at a Halloween party in 1999 and continues to see him pop up throughout her life. Lima’s prose is lush and her well-constructed plots are frequently surprising. The stories, and the stories within those stories, connect to some of the cruelest portions of the human experience with uncommon warmth and wit.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
CRAFT: Stories I Wrote For The Devil by Ananda Lima; 9781250292971; 6/18/24.
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