A review by inquisitivebookworm
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles

5.0

The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles is such a wonderful book. It mainly centers around the friendship between two young girls who grow up on a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil, and it follows them as they grow and pursue their shared dream of becoming musicians. Everything about this book is simply beautiful: the writing, the character development, the complex relationships, the settings…and of course, as a Brazilian woman myself, I loved that it mostly takes place in my home country (I don’t usually find many books set in Brazil, so this book was particularly special to me). It’s a lovely novel—I highly, highly recommend it.