Human Party

Humana Festa is an original and pioneering work of contemporary literature, as it focuses on veganism and animal rights.

Exploring the connections between feminism, the environment, and the abolition of animal exploitation, Humana Festa chronicles the relationship between Megan, a young American who champions vegan causes, and Brazilian Diogo, a forestry university student in the US who inherits his wealthy father's cattle ranches.

Additional plotlines involve Megan's mother, Sybil, a bisexual vegan feminist and animal rights advocate, and Mizz Orchid, an intelligent but illiterate farm worker in Brazil who refuses to eat animals because she doesn't want to harm them and who gains political consciousness as she becomes involved in a farm worker movement.

From Florida to Massachusetts and Mississippi, and then to a large rural estate in Brazil, conflicts arise between people with different life experiences as they pursue common ideals. An addictive and witty work, Humana Festa has already been translated into English and is captivating readers of diverse backgrounds and worldviews.

" Humana festa , Regina Rheda's fifth book in Portuguese, is an original work. The theme is totally and urgently relevant." (Márcio Seligmann-Silva, professor of literary theory and comparative literature at Unicamp).

"This wonderful novel by Rheda internationalizes Brazil and the progressive vitality of Brazilian literature and culture as never before" (Earl Fitz, Inter-American Literature: A Concise History) .