Status Updates From O Sol Mais Brilhante

”In a way, Jane and Paul had stolen something from their daughter that they could never give back.”

“[The kids at her school] were not like her. They came and went as their parents transferred into and out of Nairobi like migratory birds. She was a chicken that never went anywhere.”

“For a second Jane thought maybe it hadn’t been her back there, not her at all who lifted the baby’s body dutifully up to the camera’s eye. It couldn’t be her who agreed to take this new and delicate things so far away…”