like if One Hundred Years of Solitude had less characters to keep track of and was shorter (I always wanted something more like 20 years of solitude instead). 

this is a moving story of two sisters living in indentured servitude in rural Brazil, exploring being silenced by the government, by men, by your overlords, and by your own hand. I also agree with the comparisons to Elena Ferrante’s work. At times it is very on the nose, but a powerful story nonetheless.