It’s unsettling to her, and she goes off to uncover the truth about him. She lives at an old-age home, and one day a man appears who looks like a man who died 60 years ago. Florence jumps off the page, and even at her grumpiest moments, she’s very likeable. One reason for that impression, I later learned, is that Joanna Cannon has worked as a psychiatrist, so she’s been trained to understand the way people think and feel. I was truly taken aback by how well I understood Florence’s (the main character’s) state of mind. My favorite thing about this heartwarming mystery was Joanna Cannon’s unmatched ability to get inside someone’s head. I haven’t met anyone else who has read this one yet, so someone please pick it up and let’s talk about our feelings toward Graca The novel felt like a piece of music in its complexity and ups and downs. Frances de Pontes Peebles also writes in such a way that I desperately needed to put on bossa nova. Dores and Graca are sometimes terrible to each other, but there’s a connection, and a sort of love that changes over time as they become adults and different people. I came out of this novel feeling as conflicted as I felt while reading it. This book ultimately asks what we owe another person when your life is what it is because of them. As the years go by, and their music takes off, their friendship becomes complex, with envy, love, and pride twisting in and out of their every interaction. They escape to Rio de Janeiro to start playing music together-one has a beautiful voice, and the other is a songwriter. Two girls become friends as children in the 1930s, when one is the housemaid and the other is the daughter of the rich plantation owner. THE AIR YOU BREATHE is right up my alley: it’s a friendship saga that takes place in Brazil, set to the tune of bossa nova.
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