Name: Ginga: A Novel
SKU: 68935101
Price: 20.45 EUR
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Author: Miceli, Frida
ISBN: 9798194847815

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Physical Book

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Independently published

Author

Miceli, Frida

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798194847815

Ginga: A Novel

Miceli, Frida (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "Ginga: A Novel"

Cole Bennett spent eleven years making his body smaller and being praised for it. By twenty-seven he had a professional record, a hospital bill, and a coach who still didn't think anything had gone wrong. So he sold what he owned and moved to São Paulo — a city where nobody knew what he used to be — to learn a sport built on giving way instead of forcing through. What he finds is a gym that doesn't ask for his story, a teenager making the same mistakes he made at nineteen, and Mel Watanabe, who runs her grandmother's confeitaria three blocks away and is fighting her own inheritance: a family that wants the shop kept exactly as it is, and a country that has never decided whether she is Brazilian enough or Japanese enough to belong to either. Then a promoter offers him a fight. And a film crew offers to tell everyone how he got better — before he has. Ginga is a novel about the kind of illness that gets applauded on its way in, and about what it costs to be a very good story about someone who is still, quietly, becoming a person. ginga (n.) — the low, swaying readiness at the root of capoeira; the Brazilian word for anyone who moves through a fight, a game, or a life by absorbing force instead of resisting it. For readers of Sally Rooney, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ann Napolitano, and Gabrielle Zevin. A note on content: this novel contains depictions of disordered eating in athletes and of a suicidal crisis. No methods are described. Resources are listed at the back of the book.