Carmen Miranda’s story is compelling, but ultimately I felt hemmed in by having to follow the trajectory of her life faithfully. Does that mirror a decision in your own life, to write rather than to be onstage? Please try again later. He says everything I would want to say about worship—only he says it much, much better. God sparked this desire within our hearts from the day He first breathed life into Adam and Eve.

Two girls run after their dreams of samba, stardom, friendship, and art, and the result is this glittering, mesmerizing triumph of a novel.” –Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night “A glittering, beautiful story full of romance and intrigue and tragedy… hard to put down.” –Anton DiSclafani, New York Times-bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls    “I was captivated by this narrator’s voice—wise with years of secrets, disappointments, and burning proximity to so much heat and light. It felt like a story about a Hollywood star that has already been told many times, in many forms. | ISBN 9780735211018 True freedom comes when worship flows through us as naturally as the air we breathe, when the words and actions in our lives resonate with our Creator so deeply that every inhalation is full of meaning.

She is an icon around the world, but she is also a problematic figure. How closely did you model the character of Dores on singer-songwriter Chavela Vargas, whose singing voice was—like Dores’s—said to be like “an old drunk’s at a bar”? Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Both women’s poems are suffused with longing and regret, as I hoped Dores’s voice would be. Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. This novel has countless nuggets of wisdom that sneak up on you at the perfect moment…You’ll love this story of a lifelong friendship—and like me, you might find yourself looking back at the songs or people that first shaped you.” – Diane Guerrero, author of In the Country We Love, starred in the hit series Orange is the New Black. Louie helped me realize that worship is an all-the-time thing, a life thing. I’m not a musician, so I tried to re-create the poetry of samba on the page, just as Dores would.

. One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. (In northeast Brazil, it is forró—a twangy, accordion-based style that is reminiscent of Mexican corridos and also of polkas—that has always dominated the musical landscape.) After reading his book I finally ‘get’ worship. This is a prophetic and timely book.”—Mike Pilvachi, Pastor, Soul Survivor Church, Watford, United Kingdom“This book is a challenging reminder that our worship is for God and not for ourselves.”—Bill Hearn, President and CEO, EMI Christian Music Group, ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. This is a prophetic and timely book.” —Mike Pilvachi, Pastor, Soul Survivor Church, Watford, United Kingdom I live for those moments when I’m so engrossed and in love with whatever I’m working on that I forget myself and live vicariously through my characters.Are there particular books that inspired you or assisted you as a writer, for this book or more generally? “A poor orphan and a wealthy heiress whose roller-coaster friendship is a welcome reminder that time can make any relationship stronger.”—Glamour “If you like your fictional friendships cinematically devoted and rocky, Frances de Pontes Peebles’s The Air You Breathe is gold.” –Redbook “A haunting, poetic novel about friendship, love, and longing, tinged with golden age glamour. The novel begins with 95-year-old Dores reminiscing about Sofia Salvador while listening to her samba music. Completely surrounded, you see no means to escape. Those minutes are incredible! Readers…will be rewarded with complex characters and a well-realized setting.” –Booklist    “Peebles presents a captivating…portrait of friendship…[the book’s] reflections on love, music, envy, and loyalty ache with feeling, and a hint of mystery surrounding the central relationship’s dissolution will keep readers intrigued until the end.” –Publishers Weekly  “Although this novel is set during the 1930s in Brazil, the tale between two friends remains timeless…Each page is as intoxicating as the characters themselves; the perfect read for a long weekend or day off.” –Fashion Week Online “A soaring fusion of emotion, intense drama, and the compelling rhythms of Brazilian music, The Air You Breathe belongs to the special category of historical novels that chronicle entire lives – and it does so in enthralling fashion…Dores narrates in a voice as lyrical and achingly passionate as the sambas she writes…The novel is an intoxicating performance itself, not to be missed by anyone wanting to be wrapped up in a well-told story.” –Historical Novel Society  “A masterfully choreographed saga of friendship, envy, sacrifice and love—as soulful, layered, and intoxicating as the samba that reverberates from the page.” –Georgia Hunter, New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones “The Air You Breathe is that kind of fairy tale where the curse is that your dreams come true, and keep coming true, and you have to survive it for the rest of your life. The Wild Iris, a poetry collection by Louise Glück, and the collected poems of Elizabeth Bishop helped me a lot. She, like Chavela, knows who she is as a physical being. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. So I told the story from the point of view of the “unremarkable” friend, a musician and lyricist behind the scenes, who sees her best friend—and the love of her life—become warped by stardom, and who harbors a lifetime of jealousy and regret. This was very early in my writing process, when the novel was more an idea than a fully formed manuscript. At the time, I was reading a biography of Édith Piaf, written by a former friend of hers. Charles F. Stanley, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia“Louie Giglio communicates Christian truth in a wonderfully accessible and relevant way. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. The book brims with insightful reflections on mortality that are especially poignant coming from a trained physician familiar with what lies ahead The Air I Breathe is packed full of gems that inspire and encourage. Poetry, like music, speaks to the deepest parts of our natures. For a band like Blue Moon—whose members identify as black, white, male and female—this is devastating because it divides them. When we understand the holiness of the God who knows the stars by name—and His overwhelming love for each one of us—how can we offer anything less? Dec 19, 2017



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