The Air You Breathe

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The Air You Breathe
464 pages; Riverhead Books
Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in the sumptuous saga, set in 1930s Brazil, of wealthy Graça and working-class Dores, whose intense devotion to music and each other takes them from a coastal sugarcane plantation to Rio's burgeoning samba scene.
— Michelle Hart