Chicken Coop in a High Wind

Delve into a work shimmering with literary wit, poignant comedy, and emotional depth.

Spanning nearly one hundred years and three continents, Chicken Coop in a High Wind recounts the saga of the Breton family, setting off with the patriarch-Ernesto José Breton-forced to leave his hometown in northern Brazil due to a hapless poem published in the school newspaper. Fate propels Ernesto into an accidental life, from his marriage to the levelheaded Maria Lúcia Duarte, to the birth of his three c...