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The collector of leftover souls : field notes on Brazil's everyday insurrections / Eliane Brum ; translated from the Portuguese by Diane Grosklaus Whitty.

by Brum, Eliane.

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Graywolf Press, 2019.

Poor -- Brazil -- Social conditions.

Women journalists -- Brazil.

Brazil -- History -- 21st century.

Brazil -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Brazil -- Social life and customs.

9781644450055 (pbk.)

222 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction: Between worlds -- Forest of midwives -- Burial of the poor -- Crazy -- The noise -- A country called Brasi©Øndia -- Eva against the deformed souls -- In Demon Zé's Brazil -- Adail wants to fly -- The man who eats glass -- Old folks home -- The collector of leftover souls -- Living mothers of a dead generation -- The middle people -- The voice -- João asks Raimunda to die with him in sacrifice -- Captivity -- The woman who nourished.

"Eliane Brum is a star journalist in Brazil, known for her polyphonic writing that gives voice to people often underrepresented in popular literature. Brum's reporting takes her into Brazil's most marginalized communities: she visits the Amazon to understand the practice of indigenous midwives, stays in São Paulo's favelas to witness the joy of a marriage and the tragedy of young men dying due to drugs and guns, and wades through the mud to capture the boom and bust of modern-day gold rushes. Brum is an enormously sensitive and perceptive interlocutor, and as she visits these places she provides intimate glimpses into both everyday and extraordinary lives: a poor father on the way to bury his son, a street performer who eats glass, a woman living out her final 115 days, and a hoarder rescuing the "leftover souls" of the city. The Collector of Leftover Souls showcases the best of Brum's work from two books, combining short profiles with longer reported pieces. These vibrant missives range across current issues such as the human cost of exploiting natural resources, the Belo Monté Dam's eradication of a way of life for those on the banks of the Xingu River, and the contrast between urban centers and remote villages. Told in the vibrant and idiomatic language of the people Brum writes about, The Collector of Leftover Souls is a vital work of investigative journalism from an internationally acclaimed author." --From publisher.

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