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Your job is gone, your engagement is off, and your severance package will end soon. What else can you do? Start packing.
Don't forget to bring a beach read!
Link to article in the NYT Travel Section
The 44 Places to Go in 2009
Destination Number 24: Florianopolis, Brazil
Welcome to Floripa
Julias of the world unite! Check out the NYT-featured blog, Dating a Banker Anonymous.
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Becoming Brazilian
A novel by Jennifer Prado
Copyright 2009 All rights reserved
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When stressed-out, twenty-six-year-old Julia Cordeiro watches her job on Wall Street implode on the same day she gets dumped by her fiancé, she makes a spontaneous decision to escape to a sleepy fishing village one hour from Florianopolis in southern Brazil before she also loses her mind.
The relaxed atmosphere of Santa Marta is completely contrary to the intensity of New York City, and Julia blissfully doesn't know a soul in the rugged coastal town -- it's exactly the kind of place she needs in order to reinvent herself. But Julia doesn't quite know who she wants to be.
Through a series of romantic foibles and cultural mishaps in her adopted home, Julia learns the hard way how to finally differentiate between love and lust, relationships and one-night stands, as well as, break from her shopaholic past. Along the way, she meets an array of unusual characters who become her unlikely friends: a young boy with a presidential name, an older Chilean man, a disgruntled office worker from London, an attractive Brazilian innkeeper, a Finnish traveler with rock-star magnetism, a local transsexual and expert in feminine charm, and a too-young-to-be-any-good-for-her surfer. Each new encounter challenges Julia's ideals, exposes her weaknesses, and forces her to question her values. Quite possibly, Santa Marta will be the one place where Julia finally gets it right.