Título: Hestia Strikes a Match: A Novel
Autor: Christine Grillo
Sinopse: A Best Book of the Year at NPR
A Must-Read at The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and The Orange County Register
“Steamy, smart, and hilarious.” ―Oprah Daily
“Effervescent . . . Acerbically funny and tender . . . [A] supremely layered, emotionally and intellectually resonant novel for our time.” ―Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe
Christine Grillo’s Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war.
The year is 2023, and things are bad―bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they’re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it’s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends.
Hestia has left journalism (too much war reporting) for a job at a Baltimore retirement village on the Inner Harbor (lots of security). She’s single and adrift, save for her coworkers and Mildred, an eighty-four-year-old, thrice-happily-married resident who gleefully supports Hestia’s half-hearted but hopeful attempts to find love again in a time of chaos and disunion. She reckons with the big questions (How do we live in the midst of political collapse? How do we love people who believe terrible things?) and the little ones (How do I decorate a nonworking fireplace? Can I hook up with a mime?), all while wrestling with that simmering, roiling, occasionally boiling feeling that things are decidedly not okay, but we have to keep going, one foot in front of the other, because maybe, just maybe, we can still find the kinds of relationships that sustain a person through anything.
Christine Grillo’s Hestia Strikes a Match is an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. Equal parts wise and hilarious, it fills the heart, fortifies the spirit, and will surely help to fend off despair. In the face of the everyday wildness of our times, it asks and answers that newly constant question: How do we make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us?
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Hestia Strikes a Match: A Novel”, de Christine Grillo, publicado pela editora Farrar, Straus and Giroux, em 2023 e com 400 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Páginas: 400
Ano: 2023-04-18
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0374609977
ISBN13: 9780374609979
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Farrar, Straus and Giroux costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura que combina profundidade intelectual com uma escrita cuidadosamente elaborada, transitando entre ensaios, memórias e ficção literária. O catálogo apresenta obras que exploram temas como a complexidade das relações humanas, a busca por sentido em contextos históricos e sociais, e reflexões filosóficas sobre a maturidade e a condição humana. A narrativa varia entre o mais ensaístico e o mais narrativo, com textos que podem ser densos e contemplativos, como poemas extensos e meditações filosóficas, ou tensos e dramáticos, como romances que abordam conflitos pessoais e sociais. Em muitos casos, os livros propõem um diálogo entre passado e presente, revelando o impacto da história na vida individual e coletiva.
