Deep Cuts Book Club

A book club celebrating overlooked classics hosted by Emma Kaas. Meets every third Tuesday of the month. Our March pick is Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector! Get 20% off this month’s book Feb 17 - Mar 17! Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.” The book was an unprecedented sensation — the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: “I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.”