Feast days : a novel
(Book)

A young wife relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo, where she encounters crime, protests, refugees, gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.

Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in São Paulo are listless but privileged; volunteering at a local church to assist refugees, Emma finds herself unable to resist the tug of São Paulo's political and social unrest. As she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, Emma must confront the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.