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I Rock, But I'm Not Made of Stone
by Yara Monteiro
Vitória was born in Angola, but she was raised by her grandparents in Portugal. To become, perhaps, a "good wife". She's marked by a trauma she never overcame: she's never met her mother, an Angolan revolutionary. A few months before her wedding, she flees to Angola. Looking for her mother and her own sexual identity.She arrives in Luanda at the beginning of the 21st century. She finds it chaotic, filledwith social contrasts, a watercolor where tragedy and comedy dance together. Zacarias Vindu, a general involved in arms trafficking and a poetry lover, and Romena Cambissa, a hurricane-like widow, are, and simultaneously aren't, her main guides around Luanda. But it's in Huambo, in a magical and mystical Angola, that she unearths new clues, when she gets to know Juliana Tijamba, who fought in the civil war alongside her mother, in a meeting that awakens all of Vitória's ghosts. She is then forced to confront her past and to come into herself as an adult. Between satire and tragedy, abandonment and rupture, this is a story of self-discovery. A contemporary, urban, and feminine novel.