, leaving brain and heart halved: half English, half Portuguese, half love, half life. But it's also an opportunity to live life fully, in double. Expectations of what was thought of as bad-planned adventures are kept safe. Dreams, love stories gone wrong, and pondering about life and death fill up Inside its pages, you'll find a decade of an immigrant broken down into . Each chapter alternates between poems written in Portuguese translated to English, and poems written in English translated to Portuguese. They take readers through a where the author survives a "voluntary exile" leaving the doors of new possibilities open. And hope is always good news, right? At the crossroads of a , everything happens in a as if the words are melting themselves in a pot. The translations made by the author herself are a tentative of putting together cultural pieces of the collective consciousness of , and the well-known North-American individuality, adjusting the volumes of two languages just so the button in the middle is no longer the silence of interrupted noises.