{"product_id":"craft-stories-i-wrote-for-the-devil-paperback","title":"Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnanda Lima\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStrange, intimate, haunted, and hungry--\u003ci\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil \u003c\/i\u003eis an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Remarkable and memorable.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--OLIVIE BLAKE -\u003cb\u003e \"An astounding new voice.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--ERIC LaROCCA - \u003cb\u003e\"I love it so much.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--KELLY LINK - \u003cb\u003e\"Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --JOHN KEENE - \u003cb\u003e\"Incredible. Truly wondrous.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--KEVIN WILSON - \u003cb\u003e\"Heart-wrenching and wickedly funny.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--GWEN KIRBY - \u003cb\u003e\"Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --JULIA FINE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they'll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences-of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging--and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as \"singular and wise and fresh\" (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: \"Rapture,\" \"Ghost Story,\" \"Tropicália,\" \"Antropógaga,\" \"Idle Hands,\" \"Rent,\" \"Porcelain,\" \"Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,\" and \"Hasselblad.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties \u003c\/i\u003eand V. E. Schwab's \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecommended reading by \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and more!\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eANANDA LIMA is a poet, translator, and fiction writer born in Brasília, Brazil, now living in Chicago, IL\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eShe's the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eMother\/land\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eBlack Lawrence Press\u003c\/i\u003e), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Common, Witness, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. \u003ci\u003eCraft: Stories I wrote for the Devil\u003c\/i\u003e is her fiction debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378895712358,"sku":"9781250292988","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YQ2UNobo9U9781250292988.webp?v=1768912621","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/craft-stories-i-wrote-for-the-devil-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}