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HECHT, Tobias. After Life: An Ethnographic Novel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.192pp. $64.95 (h), $18.95 (p).
Bruna Verissimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started...