At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling linked collection that lures listeners into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil, where theyâll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. With a singular voice in the narrative-bending tradition of Kafka, CortĂĄzar, and Bulgakov, Lima speaks to Brazilian-American immigrant experiencesâof ambition, fear, heartbreak, and homeâwith equal parts warmth and agitation. Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is a powerful experience: once listened to, youâre as much a part of the stories as theyâre a part of you. The collection includes âRapture,â âGhost Story,â âTropicĂĄlia,â âAntropĂłgaga,â âIdle Hands,â âRent,â âPorcelain,â âHeaven, Hell, and Purgatory,â and âHasselblad.â