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CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Note to Reader

  The Last Time I Saw My Daughter’s Eyes, They Were on the Back of a Moth’s Wings

MARIA JOSÉ

1  The Last Known Sighting of the Mapinguari

2  The Unconfirmed Miracles at Puraquequara

3  To Survive the Revolution

4  In Which the Chorus Describes Cafuné on the Eve of the Passion

5  Beg, Borrow, Steal

6  Seven Guesses

7  A Camera Crew Films a Televovela Based on the Miracles at Puraquequara

8  In Which the Chorus Explains What Was Stolen in 1966

9  After the Plantation Fire

10  How I Lost Seven Faiths

11  In My Third Trimester I Dream My Own Death

12  In Which the Chorus Provides a Possible Chronology

THOMAS

1  Better to Marry Than to Burn

2  Atonement

3  Incomplete Address to the Lord

4  For the Glory

5  In Which the Chorus Proposes Performing Nebuchadnezzar’s Dreams Instead of the Passion

6  Peace Be with Us

7  After Waking from a Seven-Year Dream

8  In Which the Chorus Sees an Incomplete Vision of the Future

9  Sanctuary

10  Puerperal Fever

11  Overdue Epithalamium

12  And Again I Say Rejoice

13  In Which the Chorus Acts Out What May Be a Love Story

MARIA JOSÉ

1  After the Boto’s Autopsy Reveals a Nautilus Where the Heart Should Be

2  Sacrament

3  In Which the Chorus Laments the Death of the Last Encantado

4  An Incomplete Memory of the Body

5  To Reduce Your Likelihood of Seduction by the Boto

6  The Fate of My Seven Husbands

7  If Marriage Is a Duel at Ten Paces

8  Belated Epithalamium

9  When I Go to Prison to Meet My Father

10  The Fate of My Seven Dolls

11  At Play in the Fields of the Lord

12  In Which the Chorus Paints a Family Portrait at Boi Bumbá

13  Revenant

14  What They Found in the Diving Bell

SOPHIA

1  Rapture: Lucus

2  Ecce Homo, He Says, and I Do

3  What We Lost in the Flood—

4  In Which the Chorus Appears at the Wedding Rehearsal, Ominous as Angels

5  Virago

6  On the Feast Day of Our Lady Hippolyta

7  The Heart in Jeopardy Fabricates a New Fortune

8  Reluctant Fugue

9  In Which the Chorus Whispers the Rumors

10  The Unverifiable Resurrection of Adão da Barco

11  After the Flood the Captain of the Hamadryas Discovers a Madonna

12  Misbegotten

DON ANTONIO

1  Sibylline Translation

2  Plantation Landscape with Seven Unwanted Children and Pollinating Rubber Trees

3  Il dolce suono

4  Translation Theory

5  Matar as Saudades

6  Belterra Exodus

7  After Seven Lullabies Vanish from the Library

8  In Which the Chorus Relates the Somewhat True History of Puraquequara

9  The Hunger River

10  Idyll, or Impossible Epithalamium

11  In Which the Chorus Tries to Be as Clear as Possible

MARIA JOSÉ

1  Saudade

  About the Author

  Also by Traci Brimhall

  Acknowledgments

  Copyright

  Special Thanks