Feast Days

Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."—Garth Greenwell"One of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction."—Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIntelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo—a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage. In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her...