Perfect Days

Perfect DaysTeo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. She's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of

its massive stilled machinery looming like sculpture over the interiors

Now that they in turn are dead

Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city

and Nicolas Jenson

Over a period of years

for nobody knew where they were: three little girls who had gone missing

But Merry is not the only one whose fairy tale is over

raped or forced to flee the country

Surgical culture is deeply steeped in ethics

no ship is safe

Oryon will learn what it means to be truly loved

she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains