From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patr cia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression-by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can hold in the face of overwhelming male violence, the resilience of community despite state-sponsored degradation, and the potential...