Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho - Amazed Daisy

Margarida Espantada is about family. About siblings. It's about domestic violence and mental illness. It's a domino effect on pain. Literature is a game of reverse. Good novels are always about love, and the best are the ones that pretend they aren't. We shouldn't fear hard books. The stories that most captivate us bring a catharsis that carries our sorrows, characters who share similarities with us.

I like fiction that is a risky circus act, with fire and swords, that brings us very close to the burn we won't actually feel. But we recognize it. (Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho)