Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Junior Groundswell Speaker 2024 Intricately woven into this moving

Intricately woven into this moving memoir is the story of Aasmah's mother

In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the 'wisdom body'

Publication: 12 Apr 2026

the Americas and the world

Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Junior Groundswell Speaker 2024 Intricately woven into this movingI heard our grandmother asking what we were doing. "Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand. Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together