Ananda Lima Book order (chronological)

Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry—this intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima captivates with its unique voice. At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer encounters the devil, and their relationship unfolds through stories that blend the impossible with the true. Lima invites readers into surreal landscapes across the United States and Brazil, featuring bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of the living. Through her narratives, she explores modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences—ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—while highlighting the fluidity of storytelling and the essence of home. With humor and an exquisite imagination, Lima's voice is described as “singular and wise and fresh” (Cathy Park Hong), placing her alongside literary greats like Bulgakov and Lispector, as well as contemporary writers such as Ted Chiang and Carmen Maria Machado. This collection features stories like “Rapture,” “Ghost Story,” and “Tropicália,” making it an ideal read for fans of Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. It comes highly recommended by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, and The Kenyon Review.

Poetry. Latinx Studies. MOTHER/LAND is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker's relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and language. The collection is heavily focused on the latter, including formal experimentation with hybridity and polyvocality, combining English and Portuguese, interrogating translation and transforming traditional repeating poetic forms. These poems from the perspective of an immigrant mother of an American child create a complex picture of the beauty, danger and parental love the speaker finds and the legacy she brings to her reluctant new motherland.