Book cover for It's All River: A Novel by Carla Madeira

It's All River

A Novel

2026 Released
192 Pages
2-3 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Paperback Unavailable
LiverightISBN 9781324098126
Translated by Alison Entrekin

A SUMMER/FALL 2026 INDIES INTRODUCE SELECTION
AN INDIE NEXT SELECTION (JULY 2026)
BRAZIL’S #1 BEST-SELLING LITERARY SENSATION

The seductive and shocking story of a twisted love triangle, It’s All River flows through the rapids of humanity.

“Lucy was a virgin-whore. A dreamer. She wanted to test her power. She wanted men to fast for her, to grovel, to pay tithes.”

Lusted after by everyone she meets, Lucy is the town’s most deviant and desired whore—and proud of it. But there is only one man who has captured her attention: the somber, ever-suffering Venâncio, a carpenter with a dark secret—and a wife. Once upon a time, Venâncio and Dalva, his angelic teenage sweetheart, were a shining example of marital bliss and the envy of all their neighbors—until tragedy left them estranged in their own home.

But Venâncio doesn’t desire Lucy the way other men in town do. In fact, he wants nothing to do with her. And if Lucy fails in seducing Venâncio, what becomes of her? Consumed by an insatiable need for Venâncio and driven mad by a growing obsession with Dalva, Lucy makes a decision that forever changes their three lives.

Introducing one of Brazil’s most daring and best-selling authors to English-language readers, and masterfully translated by Alison Entrekin, It’s All River is a taut, provocative allegory of violence and forgiveness that grips and stuns the whole way through.

Carla Madeira

Carla Madeira is one of Brazil's best-selling authors, her novels having sold a combined one million copies. Her debut, Tudo é rio (It's All River), topped the bestseller charts for two years and has been published or is forthcoming in seven countries.

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