Audiobook Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato in the ListenBook app
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"Astonishingly beautiful . . . It's a revelation."--Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman's first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over Skype calls across borders In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother she left behind in northeastern Brazil. Four thousand miles apart and bound by the angular confines of a Skype window, they ask each other a simple question: what's the news? Offscreen, little about their lives seems newsworthy. The daughter writes her papers in the library at midnight, eats in the dining hall with the other international students, and raises her hand in class to speak in a language the mother cannot understand. The mother meanwhile preoccupies herself with natural disasters, her increasingly poor health, and the heartbreaking possibility that her daughter might not return to the apartment where they have always lived together. Yet in the blue glow of their computers, the two women develop new rituals of intimacy and caretaking, from drinking whiskey together in the middle of the night to keeping watch as one slides into sleep. As the warm colors of New England autumn fade into an endless winter snow, each realizes that the promise of spring might mean difficult endings rather than hopeful beginnings. Expanded from a story originally published in The New Yorker, and in elegant prose that recalls the work of Sigrid Nunez, Katie Kitamura, and Rachel Khong, Bruna Dantas Lobato paints a powerful portrait of a mother and a daughter coming of age together and apart and explores the profound sacrifices and freedoms that come with leaving a home to make a new one somewhere else.ReviewAn Indie Next Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookshop Named a Best Debut of the Year by Debutiful Named One of Electric Literature's "75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024" "By many measures, Bruna Dantas Lobato is quite the literary star. At 33, the Brazilian American has published a cascade of translations, both fiction and nonfiction, from Portuguese to English, and last year won the National Book Award for translated literature. But one story, she said, was missing from her bibliography: her own. With her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, centered on a Brazilian student who sees her close relationship with her mother reduced to a computer screen when she moves to New England for college, she is finally closing that gap."-Celia McGee, New York Times "This is a slim work with a narrow focus that belies the depth of its own emotion, the profundity of Dantas Lobato's observations . . . There's a quiet lyricism to Dantas Lobato's prose, an elegance both to her sentences and to the shape of the book as a whole. It's a work you could read in an afternoon or linger over for an entire winter, finding something new to savor on each page . . . In her first novel, she shows that her talent as a writer is at least as tremendous as her talent as a translator."-Kirkus Reviews "This debut novel is sheer magic, a perfect read. It exudes a palpable warmth, and there's no waste in verbiage or plot."-Library JournalAbout the AuthorBruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and teaches at Grinnell College. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
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