These are some good stories, and I enjoyed all the Brazilian cultural influences. I did wish these stories had had a good native English-speaking editor read through them before they reached this stage. The title story had perhaps the most lines that made almost no sense as written, but several other stories had some unfortunate phrasing or odd sentences that need editing to take this book from a 4-star quaint foreign short story collection to a 5-star story collection. Still, for readers who are getting bored with the same imagery and stories over and over, this is a potentially refreshing climate fiction story collection.