History Literature / SpeakerForTheDead

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: There's a considerable faction of Catholics who believe implants are a sacrilege, "trying to improve on a
body that God had created perfect." As a result, users of prosthetics such as Olhado have it hard, even though he was ''blinded'' by a malfunctioning holographic projector. However, that prejudice even extends to gadgets such as the jewel Ender wears in his ear to communicate with Jane - and please note that said jewel is ''not'' a cybernetic interface, but simply a radio with a microphone capable of interpreting subvocal speech. Future Catholics consider ''wearables'' to be ungodly!

** WordOfGod states that it took many rewrites to avert this for Novinha's children in ''Speaker for the Dead'' to begin with, so perhaps it is the ever-expanding cast size that is the root of the problem?

* AIIsACrapshoot: Played with and examined with Jane. She's spent most of her existence hiding in the Galactic "Internet" because she's aware of the whole KillerRobot cliche and worried how humans will react to her, [[spoiler:and in the next two books they do indeed try to kill her by shutting off every ansible in the galaxy at once.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: Ender, to Novinha. Also Jane to Ender, because [[spoiler:she assimilated the old Battle School psychology program's files on him. And the Buggers did it.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Planimal}}: A lot of species on the Pequenino's world, including them.]]

* RobotsThinkFaster: Jane acts so quickly that her companions Ender and Miro learn to simply ask her for something and then immediately get to work on the next steps requiring it. Her catchphrase is essentially is "Done." Because of this, it's a sign that something's terribly wrong in one instance where she ponders one dilemma [[spoiler: cutting off a colony to keep an order to terminate her from getting out]] for several minutes. After she is repurposed so that she can "teleport" starships faster-than-light, the travel is so quick that the ships are little more than boxes that one walks into, then out off.

* {{Transflormation}}: How the piggies reproduce. The humans' ''inability'' to do this is a major plot point.

* BizarreAlienBiology: How bizarre the aliens are becomes a plot twist, as it reveals why the "piggies" murder two humans. It happens [[spoiler: because in order to have babies, pequenino males have to turn into a tree. The piggies were trying to honor the men by making them into fathers.]]

* ScienceMarchesOn: Xenology. In part thanks to books like this one, the xenologer's assumption [[spoiler: that piggies have similar biology to humans (a pivotal part of the story)]] would scarcely be considered at all. In fact, even the study of the piggies would probably be avoided, given advances in remote probes.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: 3000 years in future and the world hasn't changed much.
** Right at the end of the book, Miro is very impressed by the AI's unique capability of... auto-completion.
** The fact that the xenologists have no unobtrusive recording devices. We already have cameras attachable to eye-glasses, shouldn't be too hard to place a couple in their clothes or wherever.
** Olhado's mechanical eyes aren't quite yet possible, but we can be sure that within five years of the first, very obviously mechanical version that we get, there will be ones that aren't easily distinguished as such from a distance. Also, even today, no one in their right mind would insert the plug in the other eye socket rather than at the side or back of the skull.
*** Olhado mentions that he could have opted for binocular vision instead of the socket, but decided on the latter. As it is, he sees everything as a flat image with people appearing as cardboard cut-outs.
** The concept that a husband and wife can automatically gain complete read access to all the files of their mate, even the very important ones pertaining to their job, is rather ridiculous from today's information security standpoint. Of course, one must remember that they were living in a Catholic Mission colony in which marriage was still a high sacrament with lots of strings attached.
** Likewise the concept of a team of a handful of people doing the work of dozens (Xenologists and Xenobiologist both) is completely ridiculous. As mentioned above in ScienceMarchesOn, it's unlikely that Xenologists would even be allowed to make contact, due to great advances in remote probes.

One of the Pequeninos researchers, Pipo, discovers a link between the Piggies and the Descolada and goes to talk to the Piggies about it, and is later found ritually murdered in a manner similar to how the Piggies kill their own. Pipo's son Libo wants to know what it was that his father discovered, but childhood friend and fellow researcher Novinha locks Pipo's research so that Libo won't meet the same fate as his father. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Novinha then makes a request for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo. A Speaker for the Dead is a sort of professional eulogizer, someone who investigates the life of their dead subject to try and understand their life- and then explains the life and character of their subject in blunt, honest terms, without leaving anything out.

* BrotherSisterIncest: SurpriseIncest is responsible for this one.

The Speaker Novinha gets is none other than Ender Wiggin, who is still alive thanks to TimeDilation. In the time since the first book Ender is remembered for the the xenocide of the Bugger species, so he goes by the name Andrew. Ender travels to Lusitania with his AI friend Jane, but discovers that Novinha has since tried to have the order cancelled in the twenty-two year interim. Novinha's children, however, want a Speaker for Libo and their own father Marcos, who died recently. In the course of his investigation, Ender then discovers the secret of the Pequeninos, and the secrets behind the tragic mess that made up Novinha, Libo, Pipo, and Marcos's life.

One of the Pequeninos researchers, Pipo, discovers a link between the Piggies and the Descolada and goes to talk to the Piggies about it, and is later found ritually murdered in a manner similar to how the Piggies kill their own. Pip's son Libo wants to know what it was that his father discovered, but childhood friend and fellow researcher Novinha locks Pipo's research so that Libo won't meet the same fate as his father. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Novinha then makes a request for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo. A Speaker for the Dead is a sort of professional eulogizer, someone who investigates the life of their dead subject to try and understand their life- and then explains the life and character of their subject in blunt, honest terms, without leaving anything out.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: OSC's Mormon mission trip was to Brazil. Lusitania is a colony made up of Brazilians.

The Speaker Novinha gets is none other than Ender Wiggin, who is still alive thanks to TimeDilation. In the time since the first book Ender is remembered for the the xenocide of the Bugger species, so he goes by the name Andrew. Ender travels to Lusitania with his AI friend Jane, but discovers that Novinha has since tried to have the order cancelled that in the twenty-two year interim. Novinha's children, however, want a Speaker for Libo and their own father Marcos, who died recently. In the course of his investigation, Ender then discovers the secret of the Pequeninos, and the secrets behind the tragic mess that made up Novinha, Libo, Pipo, and Marcos's life.

One of the Pequeninos researchers, Pipo, discovers a link between the Piggies and the Descolada and goes to talk to the Piggies about it, and is later found ritually murdered in a manner similar to how the Piggies kill their own. Pip's son Libo wants to know what it was that his father discovered, but childhood friend and fellow researcher Novinha locks Pipo's research so that Libo won't meet the same fate as his father. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Novinha makes a request for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo. A Speaker for the Dead is a sort of professional eulogizer, someone who investigates the life of their dead subject to try and understand their life- and then explains the life and character of their subject in blunt, honest terms, without leaving anything out.

The Speaker Novinha gets is none other than Ender Wiggin, who is still alive thanks to TimeDilation. In the time since the first book Ender is remembered for the the xenocide of the Bugger species, so he goes by the name Andrew. Ender travels to Lusitania with his AI friend Jane, but discovers that Novinha has since tried to have the order cancelled that in the twenty-two year interim. Novinha's children however, want a Speaker for Libo and their own father Marcos, who died recently. In the course of his investigation, Ender will discover the secret of the Pequeninos, and the secrets behind the tragic mess that made up Novinha, Libo, Pipo, and Marcos's life.

One of the Pequeninos researchers, Pipo, discovers a link between the Piggies and the Descolada and goes to talk to the Piggies about it, and is later found ritually murdered in a manner similar to how the Piggies kill their own. Pip's son Libo wants to know what it was Libo discovered, but childhood friend and fellow researcher Novinha locks Libo's research so Pipo does not meet the same fate as his father. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

Novinha also makes a request for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo. A Speaker for the Dead is a sort of professional eulogizer, someone who investigates the life of their dead subject to try and understand their life- and then explains the life and character of their subject in blunt, honest terms, without leaving anything out.

One of the Pequeninos researchers, Pipo, discovers a link between the Piggies and the Descolada and goes to talk to the Piggies about it, and is later found ritually murdered in a manner similar to how the Piggies kill their own. Pip's son Libo wants to know what it was Libo discovered, but childhood friend and fellow researcher Novinha locks Libo's research so Pipo does not meet the same fate as his father.

Novinha also makes a request for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo. A Speaker for the Dead is a sort of professional eulogizer, someone who investigates the life of their dead subject to try and understand their life.

The Speaker Novinha gets is none other than Ender Wiggin, who is still alive thanks to TimeDilation. In the time since the first book Ender is remembered for the the xenocide of the Bugger species, so he goes by the name Andrew. Ender travels to Lusitania with his AI friend Jane, but discovers Nivonha has since tried to have the order cancelled that in the twenty-two year interim. Nivonha's children however want a Speaker for Libo and their own father Marcao. In the course of his investigation, Ender will discover the secret of the Pequeninos, and tragic mess of secrets that made up Nivohna, Libo, Pipo, and Marcao's life.

* BizarreAlienBiology: How bizarre the aliens are becomes a plot twist, as it reveals why the "piggies" murder two humans. It happens [[spoiler: How bizarre the aliens are becomes a plot twist, as it reveals why the "piggies" murder two humans. It happens because in order to have babies, pequenino males have to turn into a tree. The piggies were trying to honor the men by making them into fathers.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Ender does this to Zeck. Also Novinha's children, particularly Quim.
** He does this to Novinha herself as well.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Well, let's put it this way: [[spoiler: to have babies, Pequenino males have to turn into a tree]].

''Speaker for the Dead'' is the first sequel for ''Literature/EndersGame'', written in 1986 by Creator/OrsonScottCard. Followed by ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheMind''

* CommonTongue: Stark, an English-based language.
** Derived from "[=STARways=] Kommon."
** The ''Ender's Game'' audioplay claims that Common already existed by that point (the official language of the Hegemony) and is also English-derived based on the comments of some children.
* ConflictBall: Quara has one superglued to herself. Ventures often into TooDumbToLive, such as when she indirectly ends up causing [[spoiler: Quim's]] death by [[spoiler: inflaming the fathertrees]].

* FasterThanLightTravel: Achieved using a modified version of SubspaceOrHyperspace and the series' particle which adheres to MinovskyPhysics.

* InscrutableAliens: A species that humanity cannot communicate with is called "varelse". The Formics initially fit into this category, [[spoiler: although later on the understanding between them and humanity improves]].
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Averted. AI evolves on the Internet after a few thousand years of maturation [[spoiler: and deliberate intervention by the Buggers]].
* JerkAss: Quara.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted by Miro (and, until he marries, possibly by Ender too). Which makes Miro resent his paralysis even more.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Pequeninos' reaction after being told that humans, unlike them, can't [[spoiler:become Fathertrees upon death]], meaning instead of honoring their most favored humans, they [[spoiler:ritually murdered them.]] There is literal wailing and gnashing of teeth when they find out.

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: They're subatomic particles and involve quantum entanglement!
** Aside from being subatomic particles, their properties are taken straight out of Mormon theology. [[WriteWhatYouKnow Card is a practicing Mormon.]]
* {{Planimal}}: A lot of species on the Pequenino's world, [[spoiler: including them]].

* SurpriseIncest : [[spoiler:Miro and Ouanda]] are siblings but don't find out right until Ender speaks Marcao's death.
** Of course, thanks to them being Catholic, they never actually do it, [[spoiler:Ouanda]] for religious and [[spoiler:Miro]] for practical reasons.
* TechnologyMarchesOn:

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: It's established in the first novel that a single ship can be used to blow up a planet, if it's armed with the MD Device. [[spoiler:When the Congress decides to blow up Lusitania, they send an entire ''fleet'' with only the flagship armed with the MD Device. Lusitania has minimal industry and no capability to defend itself, being a tiny colony of farmers]].
** This is because [[spoiler:the fleet is expecting to evacuate Lusitania, and their orders only change when they realize that the Descolada is still present and highly contagious.]]
* TrueCompanions: A big part of what keeps Ender on Lusitania
* TVGenius: Most of the main cast is of above average intelligence, but never is this really displayed outside of ridiculous feats of intuition and scientific discovery.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Miro to Ouanda. Not to mention Novinha and Libo.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Played with and examined with Jane. She's spent most of her existence hiding in the Galactic "Internet" because she's aware of the whole KillerRobot cliche and worried how humans will react to her, and they do indeed try to kill her by essentially shutting off every computer in the galaxy at once. However, this ''was'' after her overreaction to Ender doing the equivalent of hanging up the phone on her nearly got his planet blown up.

** The ''Ender's Game'' audioplay claims that Common already existed by that point and is also English-derived based on the comments of some children.

''Speaker for the Dead'' is the first sequel for ''Literature/EndersGame'', written in 1986 by Creator/OrsonScottCard.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Played with and examined with Jane. She's spent most of her existence hiding in the Galactic "Internet" because she's aware of the whole KillerRobot cliche and worried how humans will react to her, and they do indeed try to kill her by essentially shutting off every computer in the galaxy at once. However, this ''was'' after her overreaction to Ender doing the equivalent of hanging up the phone on her nearly got his planet blown up...
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The colonists of Luisitania initially practice this towards the pequenios. Turns out the pequenios are less than happy with this arrangement. Turns out later that ''breaking'' the clause brings the threat that the human government will try to subject you to [[EarthShatteringKaboom rather extreme "decontamination" procedures]].

* BabiesEverAfter: Subverted when it ends the second book: there's [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle still half a series to go]], and plus Ender never actually ''has'' a child. Played straight otherwise.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Well, let's put it this way: [[spoiler: to have babies, pequenino males have to turn into a tree]].
* BizarreAlienSenses: The creators of the Descolada in ''Children of the Mind'' are implied to have this.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In ''Xenocide'', one of the mentioned methods that the godspoken use to commune with the gods is "checking for accidental murders". This is in a list with "doorway-standing" and "counting multiples of five".

* BrotherSisterIncest: Twice over. SurpriseIncest is responsible for one. The other is (probably) nonexistent, but rather maliciously suggested [[spoiler:by New Peter, after Ender's soul accidentally creates teenage versions of his siblings from Outside the universe, with New Valentine being inaccurately [[MarySue saintly and beautiful]]]].
** This allows Card to issue a TakeThat toward one of his more obnoxious critics, who decided it was "obvious" that Ender and Valentine were incestuous. Ender replies to the remark above with "[[SarcasmMode God forbid]] that a brother and sister should [[LikeBrotherAndSister love each other]]!"
* ChekhovsGun: Wang-mu's dream of being the wife and companion of [[spoiler:the long-dead Peter the Hegemon]].

* ConflictBall: Quara has one superglued to herself. Ventures often into TooDumbToLive, such as when she indirectly ends up causing [[spoiler: Quim's]] death by [[spoiler: inflaming the fathertrees]]

* DecoyProtagonist: The real protagonist of the Path story thread in ''Xenocide'' isn't Qing-Jao, it's Wang-Mu.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Outside solves all the major problems of the story, though it causes a few of its own]].
** Qing-Jao's searches for information [[spoiler: discover Demosthenes' identity, i.e. one of the greatest mysteries of the past few millenia,]] with pretty much no explanation behind it.

* FailsafeFailure: Averted in how a Doctor Device is designed to be easy to disarm. Pretty important for a planet buster.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: [[spoiler: The "godspoken" of Path are hyperintelligent OCD sufferers. The aliens who designed the descolada seemingly outright communicate by genetically engineering viruses to send to each other, and their idea of terraforming turned the piggies into what they are now.]]
* GenocideDilemma: Hangs over the series even more prominently than it did ''Ender's Game''. The third book is even ''named'' "Xenocide," which is a portmanteau of "xeno" (aliens) and "genocide."

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Qing Jao goes mad about a quarter of the way through ''Xenocide'' and never goes back. Ends up being an IronicHell, as she's viewed slowly as the most holy person in all the Hundred Worlds eventually]].
* IceCreamKoan: At one point, Wang Mu has to pretend to be a philosopher that specializes in these, but she's too logical to last long.
* IdiotBall: Some of Novinha and Libo's decisions, and how the Xenologers act towards the pequinos before Ender shows up.
** Qing Jao has one superglued to herself, justified because of her devotion to the gods.

* InscrutableAliens: A species that humanity cannot communicate with is called "varelse". The formics initially fit into this category, although later on the understanding between them and humanity improved. Later on, the Descoladores are another example.

* KnightTemplar
* LimbSensationFascination: Jane gets transferred into the human body of Valentine's clone. She describes the process as like putting on a glove, individually finding each part and fitting into it. Each new feeling surprises her, from touching to crying, etc. When she briefly returns to her AI network a few chapters later she finds it lacking, as even virtual omniscience pales to the visceral taste of life.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: subverted by Miro (and, until he marries, possibly by Ender too). Which makes Miro resent his paralysis even more...

* MissingMom: Han Qing-jao

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: the whole point of being a Speaker For The Dead is to avert this custom, by telling the ''truth'' instead. (Fortunately, the kind of people who have Speakers at their funeral tend to have more interesting truths than lies.)
* TheNondescript: Plikt, through personal habits

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: Olhado is quite possibly the most intelligent person in the entire series, but is content with his happy home life, as he learned from Ender that it was worth more than science. In ''Xenocide'', he's revealed to have basically solved Grego's questions about the nature of the universe long before Grego even brought them up to him]].

** Aside from being subatomic particles, their properties are taken straight out of Mormon theology. ([[WriteWhatYouKnow Card is a practicing Mormon.]]) The final book in the series, ''Children of the Mind'', is filled with lots of {{exposition}} about exactly those properties, and [[JumpingTheShark it isn't as well regarded as the others]].
* ThePlan: [[spoiler:Peter's Locke and Demosthenes plan, the Command School's "game", the Warsaw Pact issue]]; in fact, there's enough of this going on to be quite accurately described as a GambitPileup.
* {{Planimal}}: a lot of species on the Pequenino's world, [[spoiler: including them]].

* {{Rewrite}}: Several details of the conclusion of ''Xenocide'' and the beginning of ''Children of the Mind'' don't line up with each other:
** In ''Xenocide'', Jane [[spoiler: is said to have never been possible to kill by the disconnecting of the ansible network]], but ''Children of the Mind'' starts again with that plot point.
** Novinha's [[spoiler: becoming a nun and begging Andrew to join her, with him refusing on the grounds that he still wants to live his life with her]] is inexplicably changed to [[spoiler: Andrew deciding to join her immediately, and Novinha had never actually become an official nun]].
** Faster-than-Light travel in ''Xenocide'' [[spoiler: requires Ender to be there, or Peter and New Valentine, because they contain Jane]]. ''Children of the Mind'' treats this as optional with no explanation.
* ScienceMarchesOn: Xenology. In part thanks books like this, the xenologer's assumption [[spoiler: that piggies have similar biology to humans (a pivotal part of ''Speaker for the Dead'']] would scarcely be considered at all. In fact, even the study of the piggies would probably be avoided, given advances in remote probes.

* StarfishAliens: The central moral quandary of this series is whether an alien species is too different to co-exist with. It occasionally descends into HumansAreBastards territory. Four alien species are seen in story, and none of them remotely resemble each other. [[spoiler: The makers of the Descolada are never contacted in any official capacity though, and may be impossible to communicate with, and Jane ceases to truly be a separate intelligence, as part of her becomes human and another part becomes piggie, while her relatively non-sentient functions remain in the ansible net.]]

** Of course, thanks to them being Catholic, they never actualy do it, [[spoiler:Ouanda]] for religious and [[spoiler:Miro]] for practical reasons.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Oh, ''Speaker for the Dead'', let me count the ways:

** In ''Xenocide'', Card mispredicted how searches for information would go. Waiting hours for information to turn up simply doesn't happen anymore; the problem is figuring out how to word your queries in such a way to turn up adequate information.

** This is because [[spoiler:the fleet is expecting to evacuate Lusitania, and their orders only change when they realise that the Descolada is still present and highly contagious.]]
* TrilogyCreep: ''Xenocide'' and ''Children of the Mind'' were originally supposed to be one book. It didn't work out, and ''Children of the Mind'' ended up being published [[ScheduleSlip five years]] after ''Xenocide''.
* TrueCompanions: a big part of what keeps Ender on Lusitania

* TwoPartTrilogy: EndersGame began as a stand-alone short story, then was later expanded into a novel. The novel is also sufficiently stand-alone, but the final chapter does have a sequel hook that allows for a sequel if you choose to read it. The sequel also sits surprisingly well as a stand-alone conclusion to Ender's story, but also has a sequel hook if you want to tie up some below-the-surface loose ends. This is where it gets into TwoPartTrilogy country. The final two books in the series, ''Xenocide'' and ''Children of the Mind'', are far more connected than the previous books and were originally intended to be a single volume, but were broken off into two with a superficial cliffhanger between them. ''Children of the Mind'' returns to being a suitable conclusion, if you count [[spoiler: the main character Ender dying]], but only opens up the biggest cliffhanger in literature since ''Chapterhouse: Dune''. Like the {{Dune}} series, it's near impossible to differentiate between the overlapping {{Sequelitis}}, TwoPartTrilogy, and TrilogyCreep.
** The SequelHook at the end of ''EndersGame'' is actually a complete aversion of the trope, because the entire novel was written only after Card was stumped on creating a good protagonist for ''Speaker''. See GoingCosmic under EndersGame above for the whole story.

* TheVirus: the ''descolada'', complete with mutation. "Descolada" translates to "ungluing," for what it does to DNA.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Jane. (Actually more like an Internet with a voice.)
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In an early chapter of ''Speaker for the Dead'', Valentine's eldest daughter Syfte is set up as having a bit of a hero-worship for her uncle Ender, and planning to maybe follow him to Lusitania to help him. In the next book, Valentine's family ''does'' do that... But Syfte is barely mentioned. (Of course, this is the series that can't make up its mind how many children Valentine actually ''had''.)
** It also doesn't help that the plot of ''Xenocide'' treats the Ribeiro family as the only scientists (or, in fact, the only remotely intelligent people not serving the church) on Lusitania, for the most part ignoring any contributions that Ouanda or Valentine's extended family (Plikt and Syfte in particular) could have made other than doing the occasional mundane task or being in crowd scenes.
** Similarly, Jakt and his trouble in adapting to life on Lusitania get a few mentions early on and then are promptly forgotten.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] with the [[spoiler:philotic creations]]. Jane is treated in full accordance with the Hierarchy of Foreignness as raman, a friendly intelligent non-human that can be reasoned with, as are the buggers [[spoiler: even after the revelation that Hive Queens are possessed by philotes from Outside rather than actually born intelligent]]. Yet, the [[spoiler:remade Peter and Valentine summoned from Outside by Ender during the FTL test jump]] are immediately treated as subhuman, inhuman abominations, by virtually all characters, including themselves.

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: [[spoiler: Lusitanian biology is made up of symbiotic plant and animal relationships. Piggies literally become trees, flies pollinate grass, etc]].
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Admiral Lands tries to pull one.
** His reason for disobeying orders seems pretty petty. While it's true that he's prepared to bear the consequences of committing another Xenocide to protect humanity, his main reason appear to be so as not to cause his men additional discomfort by forcing them to be placed in long-term duty above the surface of Lusitania.

The Speaker Novinha gets is none other than Ender Wiggin, who is still alive thanks to TimeDilation. In the time since the first book Ender is remembered for the the xenocide of the Bugger species, so he goes by the name Andrew. Ender travels to Lusitania with his AI friend Jane, but discovers Nivonha has since tried to have the order cancelled that in the twenty-two year interim. Nivonha's children however want a Speaker for Libo and their own father Marcao. In the course of his investigation, Ender will discover the secret of the Pequeninos, and tragic mess of secrets that made up Nivohna, Libo, Pipo, and Marcao's life.

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