Tropicália: A Novel
Written by Harold Rogers
Narrated by André Santana, Gisela Chipe, Cindy Kay and
4/5
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About this audiobook
Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind.
He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug-dealing aunt and uncle, his mother makes her unwanted return, years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father.
Misfortune, however, is a Cunha family affair, and no generation is spared. Not Daniel’s grandfather João—poor João—born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not João’s wife, Marta, branded as a bruxa, reviled by her mother, and dragged from her Ilha paradise by her scheming daughter, Maria. And certainly not Maria, so envious of her younger sister’s beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States, abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia, both tainted now by their half-Americanness and their mother’s greedy absence.
There’s poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed, condemned to the pain of deprivation, betrayal, violence, and, worst of all, love. But now Maria has returned to grieve her father and finally make peace with Daniel and Lucia, or so she says. As New Year’s Eve nears, the Cunha family hurtles toward an irrevocable breaking point: a fire, a knife, and a death on the sands of Copacabana Beach.
Amid the cacophony of Rio’s tumult—rampant poverty, political unrest, the ever-present threat of violence—a fierce chorus of voices rises above the din to ask whether we can ever truly repair the damage we do to those we love in this “fiery debut novel” (The Washington Post).
Editor's Note
Highly anticipated…
The Cunha family is cursed, each generation reckoning with bad luck and even worse choices. Just as Daniel Cunha is reeling from a messy breakup, his absent mother makes an unwelcome return. Told from multiple perspectives, “Tropicália” unfolds over the week leading up to New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, where the Cunha’s ultimate confrontation plays out on Copacabana Beach. Tense and melodramatic, this story of a fractured family trying to make sense of the world cuts deep.
Harold Rogers
Harold Rogers was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to an American father and a Brazilian mother and grew up between the United States and Rio de Janeiro. He holds a BA in philosophy from Miami University in Ohio, and an MFA from Columbia University. He lives in New York City, where he works as a boxing coach and a stand-up comedian.
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Reviews for Tropicália
10 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ouvi 15min e estava caricato demais, acho que não vale pra quem é brasileiro
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I gobbled this read up! The pacing was great, the reflective perspectives of each character, the way Rogers peeled away each layer and gave us family dysfunction, drama, and healing all made this book such a good read.