Lispector’s last novel follows Macabea, a poor, sickly typist living in the slums of Rio who dreams of glamour but lives a life defined by invisibility and powerlessness. The narrator Rodrigo S.M. is deeply uncertain about his ability and right to representation. With strange, uncanny and beautiful language, Lispector provides a brief but poignant portrait of a life overlooked, and a story which focuses as much on the complicated act of storytelling as the subject herself.