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"Devastating, funny and smart, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence overseas." (Garth Greenwell) "Probably one of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction." (Web publishers Regular, Starred Review) Intelligent and deeply believed, Feast Days and nights follows a young partner who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo - a South North american megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the 21st century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art work and commerce while confronting the turmoil slowly but surely building inside her own marriage. In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie says the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from NY to Brazil equally massive demonstrations against the federal government are breaking out in the united states amid growing monetary inequality. Emma has come to Brazil on her behalf husband's career, without job prospects of her own, a vulnerable understanding of the dialect, and a profound ambivalence about having a kid. Her start in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors rich Brazilians in British, and observes the city she now phone calls home. However when Emma volunteers at a local church to aid refugees and grows up more deeply connected to the people she fits in the course of her days, she confirms herself struggling to withstand the tug of Sao Paulo's political and interpersonal unrest. As the country moves seemingly closer to a breaking point, so does Emma's marriage, as she and her husband can no longer ignore the silent, tectonic shifts under the surface of these relationship. Feast Days and nights is a sharply witnessed story of expatriate life as well as a yoga on the hidden costs of modern living and exactly how easily our perception systems can collapse all around us.
