Heroines

Three Brazilian writers — Laura Conrado, Pam Gonçalves, and Ray Tavares — reinvent classics to inspire more and more heroines. There's no shortage of heroes. From classics to contemporary stories, boys and men are everywhere. Wielding swords, wielding magic wands, shooting arrows, or dueling with lightsabers. But times change, and it's high time stories change too. With feminist discussions becoming increasingly empowering and powerful, girls and women demand and need something that has always been handed to boys on a silver platter: to see themselves in what they consume. This is the book of a new time, a time that demands that women occupy all spaces, including literature. Laura Conrado imagined the Three Musketeers as veterinarians from an NGO, who suddenly have the help of a student who doesn't hesitate to raise her shield to defend animals. Pam Gonçalves' Round Table is led by Marina, who, faced with the disappearance of the money that the students of her public school raised for their graduation, draws her sword and gathers a group of girls to guarantee the party they planned. And Roberta is Ray Tavares' Robin Hood. Outraged by the plight of the community in which she lives, she uses her hacking skills to right some wrongs. This is a book where girls save the day. Where they are what they are every day in real life: heroines. Finally.