Primeira Pele
Louise Belmonte

NOVEL | 2022 | 192 pages

Primeira pele is a powerful novel about the volatile bond between women across generations. When her mother falls into a coma after a stroke, a young woman returns to Porto Alegre, the city of her childhood, where the monotony of hospital visits forces her to confront memories of a mother who was both magnetic and controlling, obsessed with beauty while blind to deeper emotional wounds.

An unexpected change in her own body brings buried desires, fears, and long-suppressed questions back to the surface. As she reconnects with old friends and ghosts from her past, she must decide what to do with a future increasingly shaped by her own choices, desires, and sense of self.

Blending lyrical prose with formal experimentation, Louise Belmonte explores the lasting damage of beauty standards, the complexities of bisexuality and desire, and the elusive nature of love.

RIGHTS: portuguese QUELONIO

BY LOUISE BELMONTE

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