Essay on Domestication (Portuguese Edition)

The debut of the author of Magnificent Sisters Park by Companhia das Letras. A novel about love, desire, rebellious bodies, and new family configurations. A trans actress adopts a six-year-old boy with her gay husband, a lawyer. The boy carries a tragic story: HIV positive, never met his biological father, and his mother committed suicide when she found out she infected him with the HIV virus. From this plot, Camila Sosa Villada's unclassifiable prose leads us through a kind of sociology of the family, a touching inquiry about the roles that compose it, especially when it comes to the possibilities of love.

To what extent is it possible to tame a body? How to live with the wounds of others? What to do when you fall into the clutches of conventions, of what is socially respectable? Camila Sosa Villada's literature - "the most important thing I have read about sexuality since Jean Genet," noted French author Édouard Louis - unquestionably challenges our emotions. In this story of invisible pacts, profound and convulsive rebellion, and devastating passions, no one comes out the same as they entered.

"In Camila Sosa Villada's voice, there is a kind of cloth or silk handkerchief fluttering through haunting landscapes, and we are the creature, we are the eye, and we are in the voice of what she narrates. A precious voice. Rare. The same that silences and then lights up everything around." - Aline Bei

"A disturbing book. Sosa Villada's writing reaches that place of nonconformity where the body surrendered to the word leaves its mark." - La Nación

"The voice that narrates this story knows that it is necessary to break the chains of all slavery and kill gods for any liberation to be fulfilled. Camila's voice, increasingly, establishes itself as one of the most skillful and sophisticated in our contemporary narrative." - Socorro Acioli

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