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A personal reflection on everyday acts of urban living, from the perspective of a woman, writer and mother returned to a gentrified Lisbon.
From a flat in Lisbon, Moreira Marques weaves together the elements of a woman's relationship to the city she calls home, branching out into the various spaces she has inhabited--places defined by desire, missed connections, books, late-night parties, growing children, love, and memories once thought lost. At its heart are moments of watching from a balcony window or through a digital screen and looking into herself in moments of rare quietude.
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Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Recent translations include Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024, Boulder by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023, and Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver, for which she won the 2022 PEN translation prize. Born in Brazil, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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