Os Tais Caquinhos
The Broken Ones
by Natércia Pontes
Companhia das Letras, 2021
144 pages
14×21 cm
A powerful and harsh novel about a family, a messy apartment and the painful discoveries of adolescence.
Many things were missing in apartment n. 402, but there was plenty of many others: paper boxes, boards of isopor, knick knacks, cockroaches, termites, dust, dirty glasses. Abigail, Berta and Lúcio are a non conventional triplet: two teenagers that share the apartment with their father, a loving man and a compulsive hoarder. While he hopes for death to arrive soon, he likes giving peculiar advice to his daughters: “Being hungry is cool”.
This novel tells a tragic and touching coming-of-age story, though able to make you laugh. Natércia Pontes draws a fascinating picture of three people trying to live with their dreams and fantasies, their fears and manias, in the middle of the piles of waste that inhabit their house.
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Natércia Pontes was born in Fortaleza in 1980, she now lives in São Paulo. She’s the author of the collection of short stories Copacabana Dreams (Cosac Naify, 2012). Os Tais Caquinhos is her first novel.
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