Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungryCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.
"Remarkable and memorable." OLIVIE BLAKE An astounding new voice. ERIC LaROCCA "I love it so much. KELLY LINK Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound. JOHN KEENE Incredible. Truly wondrous. KEVIN WILSON "Heart-wrenching and wickedly funny." GWEN KIRBY Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built. JULIA FINE
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.
Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where theyll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiencesof ambition, fear, longing, and belongingand reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.
With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as singular and wise and fresh (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: Rapture, Ghost Story, Tropicália, Antropógaga, Idle Hands, Rent, Porcelain, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, and Hasselblad.
A great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado''s Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab''s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
Recommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more!
