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There is a country where the forest never forgot its name.
In Caauí, magic does not announce itself. It lives in the steam rising from a cup of lemongrass tea, in the way a river sighs before the rain, in the hands of a healer who knows that a prayer and a root are the same word spoken in different tongues. The cities grow green and slow, the old wounds of the earth are being sutured back together, and the spirits of the forest walk quietly beside those who have learned to listen.
Tales of Caauí is a collection of solarpunk short stories set in a world inspired by the interior of São Paulo state, Brazil, where an ecological future has grown from the soil of a deeply rooted past. Each story follows a young woman finding her way back to the magic she always carried and never quite trusted, through small moments, quiet mornings, unlikely teachers, and the particular kind of grief that looks, from certain angles, like wonder.
Cozy fantasy, healing fiction, and magical realism. For those who find comfort in green things and bittersweet endings.