MY UNHAPPENINGS, Eliane Brum

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The girl who flirted with death tells how she was saved by the written word. On each page, fantastically real characters are embodied: the dead sister, who was the most alive of all; the grandmother, restrained in everything except her imagination; the family who needed a ghost leg to walk in the new world; the aunts who turned into flowers so as not to wither. As a reporter, writer and documentary filmmaker, Eliane Brum has always wondered how each person invents a life, creates meaning for their days, with so little. In my non-events, she tells how she herself tore herself from silence to become a narrative. In this journey from the inside out, the author explores herself delicately, but without shame. More than she reveals herself. She offers herself to the reader naked. Almost as a sacrifice.