Role Play

"A provocative and tightly wound novella about the way internalized capitalism slowly unravels one woman's sanity among the insanely rich of S?o Paulo. Too real to be satire, too funny to be realism, and mordant all the way through."
--Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

"Clara Drummond flays open the shiny world from which her characters come, unafraid to expose the faulty optics and damaging compromises at its decadent core. I loved this book very much."
--Stephanie LaCava, author of I Fear My Pain Interests You

"Hilarious, knife-sharp, and thrillingly alive. A glittering excavation of Rio's upper crust, our heroine's mind, and the absurdity of being alive right now. I loved it."
--Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different

"Clara Drummond's Role Play feels equal parts Eve Babitz and Thomas Bernhard, blending their hedonistic, troubled, occasionally comical excesses into an ultra-privileged millennial in contemporary Brazil. Daniel Hahn's exhilarating translation is hard to put down--I snorted it all the way to the end like the main character snorts her drugs."
--Fernando A. Flores, author of Valleyesque and Tears of the Trufflepig

"Clara Drummond wastes no time dropping the reader into this addictive slideshow of decadence and sex. Role Play is gorgeously catty, short and anything-but-sweet."
--Sloane Crosley, author of Grief Is For People