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Book SynopsisThree subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, showcasing a powerful new Brazilian voice
Trade Review"Like the writers I most admire, Fraia sets for himself the hardest and most respectable task a writer can face: unraveling the mystery without revealing the secret." -- Javier Montes
"A literary jewel." -- Fernanda Torres
"Three stories track the wanderings of contemporary Brazilians in Fraia’s subtle and melancholy English-language debut, a collection inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s
Sevastopol Sketches." -- Publishers Weekly
"With deft precision, Fraia bares his characters just enough to reveal only these stories—nothing is extraneous." -- Kirkus
"A truly beautiful book that is hard to describe without using words like precision, subtlety and, mostly, wisdom." -- Alejandro Zambra
"These tales don’t operate the way most tales do; they adhere to their own separate sense of languid time." -- Tope Folarin - Vulture
"As Sevastopol masterfully demonstrates, all one can do against time’s attrition is organize the losses into a story of the self." -- Marshall Shord - Southwest Review
"Quite excellent." -- Erin Bloom - Full Stop
"A vibe is, by definition, inexplicable. To say
Sevastopol’s vibe is a bit gloomy, desolate, styled in a color palette that includes grays, greens, and violets, is both true and inexact. The vibe accumulates over time and amounts to something. But exactly what remains evasive, thrillingly open-ended." -- Melanie Broder - Public Books
