Ways to Disappear
By Idra Novey
2016
First Published
3.45
Average Rating
272
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Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz's two grown children, flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and her author's children conspire to solve the mystery of Yagoda's curious disappearance and staunch the colorful demands of her various outstanding affairs: the rapacious loan shark with a zeal for severing body parts, and the washed-up and disillusioned editor who launched Yagoda's career years earlier.
Avg Rating
3.45
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Author
Idra Novey
Author · 9 books
Idra Novey is the award-winning author of WAYS TO DISAPPEAR and THOSE WHO KNEW. Her new novel TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is set in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia where parts of her family have lived for over a century. She's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and she received a 2022 Pushcart Prize for her story The Glacier. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages. She teaches fiction at Princeton University and in the MFA Program at NYU.
